live blogging my 2 1/2 year old

Yeah, I told Clay that you called me leaving me a dirty message about those stickers. He said, yeah, those should be used supervised. I said, I know, I felt really bad, until Suz told me the part about she handed them to her 2yr old while she was on the computer…..Hmmmm! LOL

Girl, that paint! IKES! Will it come off??? I can remember sending Rachel to the bathroom at that age telling her, “bring me some toilet paper to wipe your nose….” She came back with a long strip of wallpaper, that I had just finished hanging 1 week earlier!! The wallpaper that I had absolutely none left, took me 2 weeks to hang b/c I did it with m SPARE time with 3 toddlers running around, and had come from the store that had closed down after I purchased it. When we moved 2 yrs later, that big tear in the wallpaper right when you walk in the door….was still there!

Hmmm…but that messy food….Noah still does that, stickers everywhere, they all still do that…and the battles I fought with my 4yr old yesterday….not sure that is ever going to end!

But I know dealing with all that added on top of school and a baby, and SPIDERS can drive you absolutely batty!

When my kids were little like that I had locks on my fridge door,on every door….LOL

Unfortunately some of that stuff,yep,some of it they still do!

Alcohol will get the stickers off,which I also learned too late,it will also take off permanent marker(and sometimes the paint on the walls too)

I know how ya feel,and if you need to talk ,feel free to drop me a line or give me a ringy dingy.

Yeah, I had a lot of locks on doors too. In fact, the kids didn’t even get to go in their room during the day, or the kitchen, or my room….. Pretty much just the den and the bathroom….and they were only allowed in the bathroom once I knew for sure they were ready to potty train! That was the only way I could keep up with them, having them contained to the room I was in. But I also didn’t have older ones and younger ones. One advantage to raising them all up together. I realize as time goes on that as crazy as it was when they were all little, I think it was easier going through some stages all at once.

i keep clicking back to see what else has happened….not that i don’t already know first hand. it seems my 2 year old is just that…2, and my 3 year old still thinks she’s 2. hello, madness. i’ve cleaned 4 doors and the fridge and the kitchen cabinets today after those 2 sneaky little ninjas stole away the color pencil box. and here i thought they were actually nicely playing with each other while i was reading to the older 2. shoulda known better.

oh she’s funny. milo tortures our dog too. i can’t imagine what he’d do with a baby.

Your post keeps reminding me of stuff…..This is also the age that I put everyone’s clothes up in the highest drawer so they couldn’t continuously change. I thought my overflowing laundry would be helped by this, but since I never get around to putting clothes away after I wash them, they still managed to dig them out, and dirty them, SEVERAL times a day!

Wow, when I just left that last post, something popped up and said, duplicate comment, looks like you already said that!

I guess wordpress don’t like all that I have to say today on this post!!

I’m tired just reading it! There’s just something about girls. . .so sneaky, so dramatic!

Jackson tells me (read: yells at me from the other room) what he’s doing as he’s doing it, and i better take him seriously too.

On that note, does anybody know a good way to get crayon off a big-screen TV?

Sometimes, SOMEtimes, Jackson asks permission to do things, and if I tell him no, that’s the end of it usually. I don’t want to think about the day when he wonders why he should listen to me. . .

Megan-Woo thats a toughy….I used to use my fingernail just to scratch it off of the screen but I know that a small dab of WD 40 on a rag will remove it from the screen-and off of most other surfaces(you can use toothpaste and a toothbrush to remove crayon off of a wall)

Silly me-Wow,your girl sounds just like my baby girl just a few years ago or so-the good news?She will always stand up for herself and those she loves and be one cool little smartypants.

Have I ever said that I think you are a wonderful mother?

Oh my goodness, how many days have I had like that. Unfortunately, a lot of things like that are just par for the course at our house. Sometimes I can just take it in stride and sometimes it just about breaks me. Children are a joy, and raising them can be a trial at times. I remember all too well the day that I sat down for ten minutes to nurse the baby and in that time my older two managed to unload all of the dirt from a long dead plant in the playroom and deposit it in every drawer and shelf and niche and opening in the room. A whole garbage bag of toys was thrown out that day. Not one of my greater moments as a parent. It’s actually kind of encouraging to know that other moms have trying days too! Thanks for sharing!

Dearest daughter,
I know your hands are soooo full right now, but so is your heart. You are doing a wonderful job! As for my whirlwind grandaughter, she is my yittle angel, no matter what she does.