Love thy child

Sydney is at a place where she wants things but does not know how to communicate with you. She does like to point and say "Seeeeee" so sometimes we can figure it out and then she says "tank ew."

Yesterday she was in prime form and a few times I was having to take a deep breath, count to 10 and say "love thy child, love thy child"

She likes to climb on the dining room table and most recently Seths bed - both are high up and she does not know how to get down so many a times we had to help her - not to mention telling her no. She does not like that answer and proceeds to cry and collapse to the floor. She was quiet for a bit, and then my Jedi instincts kicked in, and I found her getting into all the wrapping paper - its all torn to shreds. Glen must not have The Force because he thought she was still sleeping. Eating is becoming an event as she will turn her head away from you and smile the whole time. You try the train or airplane thing and she just looks at you like you are crazy. The neighbor kids found a little bird at the base of a tree that could not fly so they put it in a shoebox, Sydney of course wanted to hold it and was told no - hence, scream and collapse. She prefers to play in the cul da sac or the neighbors yard vs. our nice mowed lawn. She will kick and push herself away on the diaper table so you are trying to change her and save her from falling off.

Are you feeling my pain yet? Oh, but it goes on.

Good thing craigslist/ebay have policies against selling children.

Glen was trying to download computer software and she found the button to turn the CPU off - so he had to start over. When I ask her to say mama she says da da and giggles - she knows what she is doing. Seth never liked dirt but I found Sydney with dirt around her mouth, if she is not eating dirt outside she is inside doing an excavation of the drawers. She loves apple juice, but you know what it does with little kids, and must I review what she does on the changing table? So we give her water - hence, scream, throw down of sippy cup and collapse. She has discovered how to get water from the fridge door - only she does not use a cup, no, she just likes to push the lever and out comes cold water. She likes to stand right in front of the TV, so we have to move her back, and she goes right back to it. She wants to be in Seths room ALL THE TIME when he is in there and Seth just wants to get away from her. Pops put a door handle on that can be locked from the inside, so that was solved - Seth does not know that we can unlock it yet from the outside.

All this happened yesterday and I can't wait to see how today goes. I don't think we need the supernanny quite yet, but after I put her down for the night I did help myself to a glass of wine and enjoyed the peace and quiet.