i started yesterday in a foul mood, so i took it out on my computer and wrote about it. but once i posted it, i realized it was on the wrong blog, so i took it down and moved it. then i just never published it. in hindsight i was just ranting and raving like a lunatic, wasn't thinking rationally, and needed to vent. so i blogged about it and no one got hurt or offended in the process :-) phew!
part of my unpublished post was about mother's day, so i'll sum it up right now. it wasn't the weekend i had hoped for. i had great expectations for a normal weekend with the kid. except he had other plans on saturday...starting with a tantrum, followed by a fart, then he purposely pooped in his diaper. all this 5 minutes before we had to leave for music class. needless to say he wasn't pleased with the rushed clean-up job. then he threw a fit at class, including more farting...which has actually become the norm and i've decided to not sign up for the fall session. usually after class we'll go and run errands together, be it grocery shopping, the playground or lunch out together, but i was so flustered and irritated that we came home and i gave myself a time-out.
somewhere around the 10 minute mark (a minute for every year of your age...we still had a way to go for me!), gabriel clued in that i wasn't a happy camper. i wasn't talking to him, i refused to look at him...he just paced back and forth in the condo not sure what to do. so eventually he climbed into bed with me and wanted to cuddle. so for another 1/2 hour, that's all we did. i lay in bed, he cuddled on top of me. it wasn't totally enjoyable (he is 33 lbs afterall), but i did appreciate the quietness and his attempt at understanding the situation as only a 2 year old can. we had a face-to-face chat afterwards about his behaviour that morning, and how upset mommy was. i was optimistic about the rest of the weekend, but gabe's definitely at a terrible 2.5 and we had a few more face-offs. parenthood sucks...i'm definitely the bad cop in our house.
in the meantime, we're going to go to strong start for a bit of structured activity programs. and i found a gymboree deal from living social, so we'll give that a go later this year.
