Tanturms...Truly
So by 10:30am this morning our little angel had 5 tantrums. Three big ones and two smaller ones overcome by distraction. So, like any new mother I called a sister in law to find out what I was doing wrong.
Turns out I was doing nothing wrong at all. My girl is completely normal and it's a stage we must go through to get to the other side.
But at one point late in the day between tantrum 7 and 8, as I laid on the couch with my girl sitting on my stomach I'd had just enough (I was trying valiantly to read my Martha Stewart). She stepped on me one time too many in her effort to hoist up to the top of the couch, the promised land she is not allowed to travel.
I got mad and I said sternly, "No more stepping on Mommy! Enough, it hurts me."
My sweet daughter leaned down and said, "Ahhhh. MMmmmmmm" and gave me a little toddler kiss to make it all better.
Oddly enough, it did make it all better right then.
Turns out I was doing nothing wrong at all. My girl is completely normal and it's a stage we must go through to get to the other side.
But at one point late in the day between tantrum 7 and 8, as I laid on the couch with my girl sitting on my stomach I'd had just enough (I was trying valiantly to read my Martha Stewart). She stepped on me one time too many in her effort to hoist up to the top of the couch, the promised land she is not allowed to travel.
I got mad and I said sternly, "No more stepping on Mommy! Enough, it hurts me."
My sweet daughter leaned down and said, "Ahhhh. MMmmmmmm" and gave me a little toddler kiss to make it all better.
Oddly enough, it did make it all better right then.
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