Little Bubbas: You're driving Mommy insane!

February 11, 2010

Dear Connor,

I can’t believe it’s been so long since I’ve written you a letter! I’m sorry, I won’t ever do that again… I hope. First of all let me say that I love you so very much. With that said, you’ve been driving me to the brink of insanity! You’ve entered the terrible two’s a little early. In fact, the other day was so rough that during your nap time I ordered a book on two year olds. It started at bedtime. You decided that you were not going to go to bed on your own anymore. Daddy use to read you and Hunter several bedtime stories and then he’d give you kisses and let you read in the room by yourselves until you fell asleep. Not anymore. You scream so loud and you’re relentless! Your scream was so loud Daddy and I were both worried that the neighbors would hear and call CPS. We decided it was a battle we didn’t want to fight and now Daddy stays in the room with you until you fall asleep; Except that led to naptime issues. Now, I have to stay in the room with you until you fall asleep during nap time and that is really hard because I also have to take care of Kaylee, who often wants to eat when you’re supposed to be going down for a nap. You’ve also begun telling me no. You say it all the time. Every time you say it you have to spend two minutes in time out, but that doesn’t seem to change the fact that it’s still the word of the hour. I had to stop buying cereal. I’m tired of giving it to you. Every morning I would give you some dry cereal in a bowl to snack on while I got breakfast ready. Every morning you purposely dump it on the ground. It is very intentional and I can’t figure it out. Do you enjoy eating cereal off the ground? Regardless, I don’t enjoy cleaning it up so now you don’t get cereal. If I haven’t said it already, you’re relentless. For example, the rule of the house is one cup of juice when you wake up. One. You don’t get another cup of juice until after your nap. Daddy and I have very sound reasons for this. You won’t eat when I give you too much juice and you don’t sleep as well when you’re all sugared up. This morning you had your cup of juice. Then you asked for another. I said no. You asked again. I said no. You asked me for twenty minutes straight. Each time I said, “no, you can have water.” Each time you replied, “no, juice!”

Regardless of how crazy you can drive me, you are still the cutest, sweetest boy in the universe. You still love your sister. You kiss her constantly and you always try to play with her. You still give Mommy kisses. You are starting to talk a lot which is so fun. You say “monkey” all the time because I always tell you to go be a monkey on your bed, which means go jump on your bed. You are really into Horton and you always ask to watch or read, “ortn ea a whoooooo.” You have a really cute giggle these days. You’re always laughing at Hunter. You still show off. Whenever we have company you just walk around the house looking for props to entertain with. The coolest thing you’re doing right now is trying to use the potty. You tell me all the time that you have to “poop.” We bought you a potty and you think it is the coolest thing. You sit on it all the time and you potty in it about once a day. You’d be doing better but Mommy is still trying to figure out how to potty train twins with a newborn in the house! Everything always happens at once these days! I love you buddy. I know it must be hard to be two, and so I try to remind myself daily that soon you’ll be twenty two and I’ll be wishing for the days that you insisted I read you to sleep.

I love you!

Mommy