But first, today we had a day of first.
One fun, one less fun. This morning, for the first time, Lex
got out of his bed and came into our room. I woke up to him
saying “good morning” :) Not so good, at the playgroup we went
to today, Lex very intentionally pushed a kid and made him cry
– several times! The first time I’ll call an accident. They
were in the bouncy tent and Lex fell against the kid and made
him cry. (for what it’s worth the kid was probably 3yrs and
definitely bigger than Lex.) But later they were in the tent
again and Lex went over and deliberately pushed the kid. The
boy started to cry and got out of the tent. Lex followed him
out and pushed him again, knocking him over! Needless to say he
was not allowed back in the tent. He has been in quite the mood
today. He spent most of the morning crying for no particular
reason, then was just rowdy and mean at the playgroup.
Definitely a first for him :/ There was some bad energy at the
playgroup anyway, so maybe that was part of the problem. He’s
napping now and hopefully will wake up a little happier.

Anyway, the point of this post is that life
(or me anyway) seems so up and down lately. I’m permanently
exhausted (why aren’t I napping now??) and can so easily go
from happier to cranky at the drop of a hat. Lex is the same
way. I’m not sure who’s feeding off of who here, but it kind of
sucks. He will be driving me crazy then turn suddenly sweet on
me… leaving me feeling guilty for being cranky. Or we’ll be
having a great day and suddenly, of the out blue, he whack me
across the face and dissolve into a crying fit. I know this is
the classic definition of “terrible twos”… two years old and
two kids two years apart. All normal, but man am I
tired!