Story about Annie I feel like sharing today.
Yesterday we had a very brief window to cram a nap into. We got home from playing at my mom's house around 1:30 and needed to leave for Charlie's swim lessons at 3:30. So we got home, I changed Annie's diaper (because yes, we're 100% back to diapers, I failed), and put her to bed.
I set Charlie up for some down-time with a movie on my bed and headed to the kitchen/living room to catch up on some dishes and laundry.
I could hear Annie making ruckus in her room so I told her if she can't calm down she'd have to sleep with me on the couch. About a minute later the ruckus got louder and since she can't totally be trusted in her room (she tends to pull down curtains and break ottomans) I took her to the couch. I laid down with her and wrapped her arms around herself like a straight jacket so she couldn't hit me, because that's her new fun trick that I love slash constantly will myself not to hit her back.
After about 10 minutes of her thrashing around and listening to her chant that she wants her Grandma I gave up and put her back in her room.
I decided that letting her destroy her room and our house was a genius plan so I went downstairs to attempt to do some work.
An hour later I went upstairs since now it was time to get ready for swim lessons. I found her sitting on top of her changing table, hair was totally wild, wearing dirty running shoes with no socks (a pet peeve of mine), reading a pamphlet she found from the hospital about...wait for it...Shaken Baby Syndrome. Right on the cover it says "Frustration. It's normal. Have a plan. Never Shake A Baby."
It's like she knew she was about to get shook. Believe me, I wanted to shake her. This is so inappropriate for the Internet so I will say that for the record I'm kidding, I would never shake her. Lock her in her room for an hour yes, but shake her probably not.
In the middle of my total frustrated mommy moment she did make me smile though when she said 'I'm not going to nap, I'm reading my mail.'
3 comments:
That's awesome! You guys had it too good with Charlie, Annie's Fate's way of evening the score.
Thank you for the laugh, that was great reading!! Its nice to know I'm not the only parent that wonders if shaking the kid would really do damage or just make ME feel better (ok, I'm kidding too, would never shake them)!!
I echo what Brooke's comment says - Annie is keeping you on your toes! :)
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