park day FAIL.

Somehow I think BG hacked into my email and read one of those parenting emails on two year olds and tantrums. And then she decided, "I'll show her a tantrum" and has begun to do that. Good grief y'all. Proof? On Monday I took BG to school for a few hours so that I could get some stuff done on my day off. It was a gorgeous day out, so I decided to pick her up early and take her to the park.

Only the toddler I picked up clearly wasn't my sweet Baby Girl but some Chucky type demon child in a sweet BG body. Good times. She was already upset about her juice (yea, no idea), but I kept driving to the park. Then she saw her blanket on the way out of the car and. oh. my. stars. the meltdown. Once she calmed down from that, we headed to the lake and the ducks but she saw something different and wanted that.

"Miiinnnnneeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" is all she would scream. She planted her feet and refused to move. I had her hand, but she was practically horizontal as she put all thirty three pounds into pulling me backwards.

I was mortified. No lie, I immediately started pitting out as I racked my brain for the best way to handle what was happening in my life at that moment.

Want to know a truth? Before BG, I was so the girl that would have given the mother with the screaming toddler "the look". You know, the look of disdain as I try to send her mind vibes of "can't you control your dang child woman?!". I know. I'm not proud. Now that I am a Mom, if I see that scene, I'm all "that poor woman... thank God it isn't me (this time)".

The only solution was to get the heck out of dodge. And fast.

So I picked up my now limp as a sack of potatoes toddler (who is still screaming mind you) and bolted back through the parking lot to the car.

She was beyond reason, beyond consoling. And so was BG.

Ha.

Seriously, there was no figuring out the problem, the issue, nothing. She was done.

So I put her butt in the car and we left.

No sooner did we get five seconds down the parking lot than I hear a tiny little whimper from the back seat; "I sowwy Mommy".

I looked back to see the biggest, saddest blue eyes and the poutiest little lip ever.

"I park?" she asked.

But I couldn't. I couldn't give in. Which sucked because I so badly wanted to go.

I knew though, that I couldn't give in. A point had to be made. She acted the fool and lost park privileges.

So did Mama. Boo hiss.

Sometimes this parenting thing is super hard and not much fun.

toddler tuesday

One of my favorite's, Jennifer over at Life in the Green House, hosts a fun little link up for toddler activities on Tuesdays. Usually I just check out her other entries as I don't tend to be too crafty myself, but this week is different.

Craft fun for the win!

Shannon tweeted a picture the other day of an activity that she had her little one do and I knew that I had to try it. So on Sunday, when the weather was ridiculous gross and we'd been inside and awake for an hour and had already exhausted three other entertainment options, I pulled this little activity out.


On Pinterest, they used much bigger bags, but I went with what we had in the house which was these little ones. It's just small ziplocs filled with kids paint. Painting with no mess? Awesomesauce.

Also please ignore the messy windows. This window is where two dogs like to press their noses to watch all the neighborhood activity. Poor thing can't stay clean.

I'll be honest; this is a pretty neat idea on paper and from what I've seen on Twitter, some of the kiddos have loved it. Mine? Not so much. Her interest in it lasted about 0.325 seconds. Le sigh.


I did leave them up to find her later in the day punching the mess out of them while hollering "RAWR!!". So there's that.


But we did crafts and survived. And it was kind of fun for those 0.325 seconds so I suppose I can attempt the crafty Mom thing again. Hopefully I won't get the "that's the best you've got Mom??" look next time.


Love her dearly. I do.

help, please?

I don't ask for advice too terribly often on here (because I'm so good at everything, bahahaha!), but I'm coming to beg ask for some suggestions from all my great Blog Mama's.

Here's the deal; I don't know anything about toddlers. Yep. Heard it here first. I'm not a big "kid" person, I've mentioned that before, so I've never been around them a ton. I didn't really baby sit, I don't have young cousins, VBS and nursery duty usually makes me break out in hives, so yea, not so good on the toddler front.

What do you DO with them all day??

In the span of about thirty minutes, BG can go from blocks, to books, to outside, to inside, to tearing around the kitchen, to banging pots, and back again. It's insane. I have not sat down during the day in four days. My house looks like a tornado swept through it. I'm spent.

It's like she started walking and WHAM, that's all she wrote. (which if one person says I told you so about her walking, I will shank you. I am still OVERJOYED that she walks now, I just need more entertaining tricks). So seriously, activities? And I stayed at home to SAVE money so please don't list fifty different classes because that's not happening. And we live in the South, where it's been over one hundred degrees by noon the past couple of days, so lots of indoor activities would be great (although I will take some outside ones).

Keep in mind, the child is insanely active. She does not like to sit still. Even her "sitting still" activities like puzzles and blocks become standing ones when she carries them all over the house. So there's that. She's not a big book fan (another post in itself), she doesn't really want to be held, and she's weird about textures.

Wow. No pressure huh?

For real y'all, I need some help. I'm out of ideas. Ready.... go!

K thanks. :)