'Tis a happy day!

i got up feeling good, brody got out of bed after only asking him 2x to do so, and ethan got right up and dressed himself! yay! (hes only 2 dont forget) even went potty and put BRODYS dirty laundry in the laundry room! im totally impressed! AND ethan ate his breakfast... and he didnt have a tantrum at all yet! YESSSS! LOL!! we came home from bringing brody to school and played "hotwheels" (cars) for a bit, then i made my coffee and now 'were' watching "cars" the movie.

I think the reason i am feeling pretty good today is that i did my wii fit for almost 2 total hours yesterday. i worked out for about an hour last night, doing mostly yoga and games... and i woke up feeling really good and ready to go, despite still having this cold.

When one door closes, another one opens...and closes, and opens, and closes, and opens...

This morning, as usual, started off slow. i HAD to take a shower before getting brody to school. my hair was a mess.. i couldnt even get a brush through it.. like i said yesterday i hadnt been feeling good and today so far i wasnt feeling much better so i didnt get dressed other than to grab brody from school .. i barely call what i wore being dressed though.

so anyhow... the morning started off slow.. brody is a little absent minded in the morning. i set out his clothes for him, made sure he was lookign at me before i got in the shower.. "here are your clothes brody. please be dressed before i am out of the shower." so i get out of the shower.. brody is not dressed, and his clothes are missing. he cant find them.... this happens every so many days with him... SOMEhow... the clothes went from my bed where i put them, to the kitchen chair... hmm... and it took brody about 5 minutes to find them.. maybe longer.

anyways.. he gets dressed. he felt bad about losing his clothes and moving so slowly, he did appologize.. what a sweety! he made me feel a little bit better...

so i get the boys food, send brody off to school, get home.. everything is OK.

Ethan comes home and is acting so cute hiding under the blanket. (i was making my bed) then he goes off on his own to play with his trucks and cars from the cars movie. so so cute! i get my coffee made, tv is on something i want to watch, i even called mark just to tell him i love him (hehehe! he was in his cheifs office when i called him. )

so i sit down and ethan is happy. YAAAYYYY! he ate, he got dressed without a problem, no issues with shoes... AAHHHH.

well about 20 minutes after this, all of a sudden, literally, ethan starts to fuss "i want to get out brodys door!" and runs to the front door of our house. HUUH? "ethie, you DID get out of brodys door" ( he likes to get out of the door where brodys seat is in the jeep. idk why, its pretty annoying, but i really have to pick my battles with him or ill go nuts.. so i let him do it. )

so i tell him no a million different ways, that doesnt work... so after many unsucessful tries to get him to calm down.. (hes now crying and fussing) i had to put him in his room with the gate up.. after about 5 minutes if that, i go try to talk to him and ask if he is going to be a good boy. "no" he says... so i tell him when he is ready to be a good boy i will let him out.

a few minutes later i go back to him.. hes now asking if he can PLEASE close the front door... AAWWEE he did say please.. he asked a few times. so i ask him if he is ready to be a good boy. he says yes, so i put the gate down adn let him close the door. it wasnt as fast as im making it seem, but as soon as the door is closed i lock it (im paranoid and never ever have my door unlocked lol) so then he is fussing because ...well i forget at this point HAHHA! so i put him back in his room with the gate up until he can calm down.

a few minutes later, i go back to him, i ask him if he will be a good boy and he says yes... he says he wants a hug too, so i put the gate down and just hug my baby boy and try to get him to think about something else... "want cheese crackers? milk? grapes? raisins? " you get the idea.. he said no the evrything.. but eventually he said he wanted a granola bar so we go get one together.

so he ate the granola bar and is happily playing with his cars again! its been about 30 minutes now and he is my happy little ethie again! AHHHHH!

i like to eat, eat, eat, ORANGES and bananaaaassss!

So this is actually a post for yesterday. but today was just as bad. of COURSE this is going to be about ethie...who else were you thinkng :P oh ethie my love...

SOOOO before i drop brody off at school i offer to let ethan choose something healthy for breakfast. "orange" he says. perfect... i peel him and orange, start to separate it... "i want to do itttt!" he says... ok, so i hand him the orange in a bowl. "nooooo i want new one.. i peel it!" after trying to tell him no, he has to eat the orange i started to peel, i give in. i was really feeling sick yesterday with my sinuses all conjested, and hadnt had any coffee yet, i gave in... ethie gets his orange, BUT im going to have him eat both oranges.

so he tries to peel the orange and cant. so i start it for him... then he finishes it and separates them. he eats one orange wedge and half of another... then asks for a banana. im on the phone with mom... and im not really paying attention to the bowl of oranges.. i ssumed he ate them.. so i let him have a banana.. im just glad hes eating! (he goes through purts of eating really well, then barely eating anything at all.)

so i start to peel it and by the time i get to the last peel hes upset. "i want to do it" oh ok, so i hand him the banana so he can peel it. no, thats not going to work. he wanted to peel the entire banana.. so after several minutes of trying to get him to eat it, he convinced me, (somehow.. cant remember because i was on the phoen with my mom) to give him another banana so he could peel it himself. i was ok with it though i figured fine ill just eat the other banana myself to save us both a headache.

so WOW.. what do you know, ethie cant peel the banana, just like i told him, he wouldnt be able to. so i started it for him... then he starts to peel it... the entire peel is off now. so then he takes one bite. perfect....hes going to eat it.

(mom is laughing at me btw... )

then he says he wants the other banana too. "your going to eat both bananas?" "yep!" ok, so i give him a plate with both bananas on it... hes mad because he wants the peel on banana #1. ok, ill just slap the peel on it and maybe he wont care..or notice... hes too smart not to notice, but its worth a try.

this makes him angry... uuuhh! ok... fine fine, ethie, just take the one banana you peeled. well ethie doesnt want either banana now and throws them on the floor. of course!

so i put the bananas on a plate, on the table, and its time to get brody to school. ethie can eat when he gets home.

so when we get home from bringing brody to school, i notice the bananas are gone from the table... the dog ate them while i was gone. (my boxer, blue.) she didnt touch the oranges. those i put on the counter and they are STILL there. theyre kind of gross now though so they most likely wont get eaten.

a similar scenario went down for lunch. all he wanted was this raisin bread i have. ok well thats kind of healthy. so i give him a piece. nothing on it, not toated, thats how he likes it. he wants 2. i hesitate, knowing he probably wont eat 2, but he didnt have much for breakfast so maybe.. worse case, ill put the second one back if he doesnt eat it.. i just want him to EAT!

so what does ethan do? takes 1 bite out of 1 bread, and eats half way around the edge of another piece. i saved the toast. its on the counter this morning...

he did eat pretty good for dinner though. guess i shouldve attempted the toast for dinner, but he had fish sticks and fries.. so i guess the fish is a little better for him.. so i was happy.

he had NO unhealthy snacks yesterday.. since he couldnt eat, i didnt think he deserved anything.

dunkin donuts AAAAHHHH.. not so aaahhhh today...

We JUST got a dunkin donuts here. i am SO happy. up north, they are on every other corner. so when we moved down south i was pretty sad there was no dunkin donuts ithin miles...hours...

so there is 1 dunkin donuts that opened up this week and i found out about 4 days before they opened. i was SOOOOO happy!

so the other day after waiting in line FORever... i took my youngest son with me to dunkin donuts at 8:30m after dropping my oldest son at daycare. i got my coffee and donuts. they didnt give me napkins, and the coffee was GREAT but not JUST like back home, but i was happy because its been a while! they also gave me chocolate glazed donuts, not frosted like i asked lol. ok, so whatever... thats fine. i go there again today, wait in line forever again, got my coffee (toasted almond) it smelled burned, but it was a fast line, so idk, maybe it was my imagination. they forgot my flavoring, and gave me the wrong size, but it was bigger so HEY whose complaining! i got the boys donuts... when i worked there, we separated the donuts with the little "paper" thingys so they wouldnt stick to eachother.. well, all my chocolate donuts were melted and stuck together, AND i had no napkins again....are they just not giving out napkins anymore??? idk, i was a little dissapointed today though. i know its just D&D but still... its my love and im sad :( theres a whole art to it and im not impressed lol. hopefully next week will be better... maybe i should tell them how its really done lol...

Introduction

Im going to keep this as short as possible.

My name is Jacquie and i LOVE to write and share certain bits of my personal life lol. im quiet, usually, well, ok, not all the time, i do love to talk. i act like a psychologist im told and its true, but i love to try to help people and i love psychology. i honestly think taking these psych classes has helped me understand quite a bit about myself and other people.

i make a LOT of typos. so sorry... i probably will have words spelled wrong here and there, typos, my I's are rarely capitolized.... w/e this isnt english class. i also tend to write how i speak too... and these little ... i use ofen lol.

SO im 25 years old, im a mom of 2 boys, married for 5 years to a navy man and im a very happy person. i started nursing school last year, but my school sucked horribly and i will be moving soon to another state where i will finish nursing school so in the meantime im a stay at home mother and my oldest son brody, who is 4, is in preschool. So i stay home with my youngest son ethan (aka ethie) while he is at school. we have 2 dogs, a boxer i usually dont like but she is growing on me lately, and harley... my shih tzu who has several nick names like ahr bar, barley, bar bar...etc... my kids also have nick names... several... lol.

Im a northern girl, originally from RI, moved to maine for a few years, and now were in FL. i dont care much for the south, where im at anyways, BUT this weather is growing on me and the people here are definitely different from RI people.

OH look, theres a spell check here. i may or may not use that depending on how lazy i feel.

My mother is italian german and english, i have her italian mouth when i need it, and my dad is cape verdean... most peopel do not know what that is, but i have a lot of pride in my nationality.

i have 4 brothers, a ton of nieces and nephews, a bunch of great friends, and a lot of time on my hands right now! ha!

Ethie... We have a problem

I know normally, i should give an introduction first, but right now i have to get my morning tantrum (uh, ethies mornign tantrum) out to the world i guess. Ethan (aka ethie) is my 2 1/2 year old son.

SO the mornign starts off well, sort of. My 2 little boys are snuggling with me in bed, i wake them up to snuggles and tickles, my kids are happy and laughing, and suprizingly, were going to get my older son to school on time. I have to get Brody, my oldest, to school by 8am. so we head on out, get to school adn that is where the trouble starts with ethie.

ohhhh ethie...

i have to put in a code on a screen to get brody into his school...and usually the kids like to push the right buttons to make the door open. ethie likes to push the stop light button for the door to open...well, brody got to it first, so of course ethie flips out. once i get the door open and ethie behind it though, i can atleast drop brody off to class and let ethie flip out for just a second in the hallway at the door. im about 100 feet from him, hes fine.

so off brody goes to class and i grab ethie, now theres probably about 10 people there who hear my child cries and fusses, and i try to explain to ethie when we go to get brody, he then can push the button...

that wasnt going to fly with ethie..

so i get ethie in the car asap, dont even buckle him in yet. i sit there for a minute because i know whats to come next.... hes going to have a bad tantrum.. well, it technically already started, but it wasnt that bad yet. so he refuses to get in his seat. so i turn around in my chair to try to help my wild 2 year old get in his seat...yeah right... so i get out the car, hop in the bac seat to get ethie down in his chair, finally after successfully managing to do that i try to open the door to get out of the car but we have the child protection lock on, so i have to climb in the front seat. so i feel a little silly because now ive been climbing all around the car liek an animal, and im parked right in front of the building. ah well..

so we drive home.. all the way home, the 10 minute drive, ethie is crying and fussing about this button. i try to convince him to get out of the car when we get home, tellign him he can puh the lock button.. ok, so that worked. then i have to try to get him in the house. he loves to close the front door, so i make it sound really exciting "ethie you want to close the door? you can close the door! yay! lets go!" ok, so he starts walking up the drive way as if he is going to walk to daycare so he can push that button.. uuuhh!!!! ethie....

so finally, he starts walking to the door, but doesnt step inside the house...so i close the door on him and peek out the window and tell him" bye bye" and then he gets upset after a few seconds, so i let him in... then he comes in..

after a while of playing do you want to close the door, him saying yes, then not doing it, i gave up. i closed the door and started to clean. ive learned how to dealw ith ethies tantrums. he is nothing liek his older brother, who really was a lot easier lol.... so instead of me getting frustrated, i really do laugh in my head to myself, and i just clean... as long as im up usually its a distractor for both of us.

so i start vaccuming... when i walked in the door one of th dogs got ahold of ethies pull up so there was stuffing all over the place. (clean pullup thankfully. they must have gotten it from my bag!) so im vaccuming. ethie is so upset ... probably because the vaccum is louder than him.. so he comes over to the vaccum adn hits it.. i tell him we do not hit.. and continue to vaccum.. then he practically climbs on the vaccum, trying to turn it off, adn i figure, ok, if hes going to do this, ill make it more difficult for him,.... so i start vaccuming a little out of control lol. i get a laugh out of it in my head as ethie is barely hanging onto the vaccuma dn trying with all his might to turn it off. eventually he goes away. so i throw in a load of laundry, make a bed, get him juice that he threw on the floor.. he also told me not to make brodys bed.. while all of these tasks are bing done of mine, im askign ethie if he wants to help me to distract him but he didnt want to. he just cried at the door.

so ok, 45 minutes later, since the tantrum began, ethie says he wants to close the door, so i tell him ill allow him to do it and he has to be a good boy.. so i did it...and he was just fine... he grabbed his juice, and is now watching sesame street lol.


OHHH ethie.... ethie...ethie....
total tantrum time: 45 minutes.
total stress level from 1-10 on average: 3
total level of patience tested on a 1-10 scale: 10