Okay, so I let them get to me and actually cried

DD has been waking from her nap like a complete crank bag. She can whine or cry up to an hour after she wakes and nothing can make her happy...I have tried everything. She is obviously not getting enough sleep but I do leave her in there until it is obvious she is not going back to sleep. Anyway, Lily had been crying while I tried playing with her, feeding her, soothing her, you name it, for about 30 minutes. Jack then woke up and I tried to give them their snack - yogurt. Jack is doing this new thing for about a week now where he will eat for EVERYONE else but me. He will literally not take one bite of something if I am the one feeding it. For example, he completely skipped dinner last night. So, I offered him the yogurt and he started turning his face away and pointedly ignoring me. I got so frustrated I just looked at him with tears running down my face and said calmly, "fine, I do not care if you eat at all, I don't care one bit. Don't eat ever again if you don't want to, I don't care" Opps....

Well, I managed to pull myself together and just sat them in their high chairs with their own spoons and the messy yogurt and sat back and laughed at the mess they made. They were laughing too so I guess everyone is okay.

Great, now I have to go break up a fight about the laundry basket...oi vay (sp?) I am so over it today!

 

I have been known to say to them "I am SO over your whining!" We do the best we can and some days and better than others. At least in the end it sounds like they ate some yogurt and you got to step back and breathe.

 

Been there myself a few times. My girls went through this as well and still do. Haley is so picky that if she gets woken up she is miserable. We have also been there with the food and it happens a lot now with Megan, she wants to feed herself, so we do the same thing, she sits in her seat and eats and it is a mess to clean up but oh well at least she will eat.

Hang in there.

 

Bless your heart! I think we've all been there. If I remember correctly..and who knows...after kids the memory comes and goes, but they are probably getting ready to go thru a LOT of control issues, the biggest and messiest, is the wanting to self feed EVERYthing!

I hope that your day gets better!

 

WE ALL HAVE THOSE DAYS!!!! :hug: Glad you gave them the spoons and let them have at it!! That's probably what he wants and doesn't have the words for it! You survived!! :banana:

 

:hug: Been there. :blush: I asked my dd once if she took her annoying pill that morning. And she looked at me and very calmly said "no". We all say things that we don't necessarily mean. :hug:

 

Hugs & hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!

 

Ugh. I've totally had those days. I hate when I say not-so-nice things even when I KNOW they don't understand them.What's even worse, one time I was smiling and cooing at one of them who was being really unreasonably cranky but as I was doing it I said in a sing-song voice "You're reeeeally working my nerves right now". What made it sad is that the baby stopped whining and started smiling like I was really being nice! Aw, if only he knew. It's ok to get frustrated. Even if they can sense it and it makes them more upset, they also know that for every one of those negative times, there's a thousand positive mommy times and that's what they remember. I remember the other day I bumped Braxton's head pretty hard. I guess DH saw this as a rare opportunity to come in and swoop him up and console him and protect him from "mommy danger". He wanted no parts of him. He squirmed and pushed until he could get to me. DH yelled "she's the one that hurt you...why do you still want to go to her?!". I don't have to tell you how silly that question is but you get the point. Mommy is their life and even on days when you're both (or all three in our case) sickof each other, at then end of the day you're still mommy and they still know you'd do anything in the world for them. Hang in there and I'm hoping for a great recovery day for you guys .

 

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Ugh. I've totally had those days. I hate when I say not-so-nice things even when I KNOW they don't understand them.What's even worse, one time I was smiling and cooing at one of them who was being really unreasonably cranky but as I was doing it I said in a sing-song voice "You're reeeeally working my nerves right now". What made it sad is that the baby stopped whining and started smiling like I was really being nice! Aw, if only he knew. It's ok to get frustrated. Even if they can sense it and it makes them more upset, they also know that for every one of those negative times, there's a thousand positive mommy times and that's what they remember. I remember the other day I bumped Braxton's head pretty hard. I guess DH saw this as a rare opportunity to come in and swoop him up and console him and protect him from "mommy danger". He wanted no parts of him. He squirmed and pushed until he could get to me. DH yelled "she's the one that hurt you...why do you still want to go to her?!". I don't have to tell you how silly that question is but you get the point. Mommy is their life and even on days when you're both (or all three in our case) sickof each other, at then end of the day you're still mommy and they still know you'd do anything in the world for them. Hang in there and I'm hoping for a great recovery day for you guys .



Exactly. I find myself having those kinds of days more and more often, partly because I'm pregnant and the hormones and aches aren't fun, and partly because of their age!!! When they are really really getting to me (crabby, crying, throwing things, etc.) I say "That's IT, Mama's DONE" and hide in the bathroom a minute. They scream outside the door, but it gives me a minute to breathe, calm down, and come out with a smile (usually) and some way to distract them. THen the little buggers always manage to do something adorable and you feel terrible for even feeling the way you did. Motherhood!!!!!

And you are so right about the mommy thing, too ... they are at that point where since I'm home with them, they are more attached to me than DH, to the point where he comes in and half the time Chase wails and goes running to me, if they fall, they run to me, etc. I actually got mad at DH because he was just laying there on the couch watching TV and they were LEAVING HIM ALONE. I said if I did that, I'd have kids climbing all over me, handing me things, asking for stuff, but they just leave him alone.