He may not look it from this photo, but my son has become a possessed child. He has daily tantrums, you know the kicking screaming, tears and if he's really pissed at me biting kind. And in all honesty it takes a lot of control on my end not to want to swat his butt every time he turns into the demon child. It's time outs and discussions, but it's exhausting...case in point. Trace woke up last night around 1 in the morning and I thought he might have rolled out of bed (he does that on occassion), so I went in the room and didn't bother to turn the light on. He was sitting up and whining. he started crying for water and I grabbed the water bottle on his nightstand and unscrewed the top and handed it to him. It was dark so he couldn't clearly see it and continued to cry and the crying became more frantic. So, I turned the light on and handed him the water bottle, he pushed it away and started crying for milk. I told him no, that it was late and he was asking for water so he can have water, but he didn't need milk at 1 in the morning. He proceeded to start screaming, ear piercing screaming, the kind of screaming that scares you half to death if you are suddenly woken by that scream (as happened to gene). I walked out of the room and shut the door, I didn't know what else to do. Trace started screaming for his dad. I went back in his room and picked him up and rocked him and had a 5 minute conversation about how we can't do this at 1am. He sniffed and nodded his head and I gave him some water, laid him back down and he fell fast asleep. I crawled into bed and even while writing this all I can say is WTF?!
the photo above was taken this past saturday, the hat is from Goorin.com
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