Mornings are usually good because the boys are well rested from the night before. However, afternoons...are usually rough. Today...rough doesn't even begin to describe my afternoon!
We struggled for almost 2 hours before Elias finally decided to quiet down and napped. 30 mins later, Elias was up. Of course with hardly any rest time, the rest of the afternoon was whining, whining, and more whining.
Elias also flooded the bathroom at bath time. I was washing their hair and wasn't paying attention to what they were doing. Elias took his bucket, filled it up with bath water, and poured it out of the tub. The water even got to the hall carpet! I screamed and then I went speechless. After cleaning up the bathroom while giving Elias a lecture, he went ahead and did it again. This time, I saw what he was going to do...but was I fast enough to stop him? NO...It was like slow motion. When I finally got my arms out to stop him, it was already too late. I was at the verge of crying at the point. I was very upset with him, but at the same time I felt like I couldn't blame him because I wasn't watching him close enough to not let it happened. Needless to say, bath time was over then. I took him out of the tub, wrapped him in his green frog hoodie towel, looked him into his eyes, told him that he was wrong and he's not getting his bucket for bath time tomorrow. And what he did??? He gave me this cute look with a half smile half grin. Arg....>.<
Finally put them to bed at 7pm. It's been 3 hours since they're asleep. Me still very stressed out. Maybe I need to go to bed myself. Crossing my fingers that it will be a better day tomorrow.
Today, self control (of my emotions)-out the window, patience-out the window as well...mommy's grade for the day: F
sigh...
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"School" time- tracing letters with fingers, counting up to ten, shapes and reading
