Current mood: surprised
I have mentioned before, Mia is in her terrible 2's full force! Its been a constant battle with EVERYTHING! Everything you ask her to do or ask her is "No", she screams and cries and pouts ALL the time. At times I feel like I am about to pull my hair out with her! Today, however, was the last straw!
She woke up in a decent mood. She ate her breakfast and things seemed to be going pretty smoothly until her brother woke up. Everything went down hill after that. She didn't want me to get him from the room and started to tantrum. Alex needed to eat so despite all my efforts in trying to make Mia happy I just had to ignore her and leave the room so I could feed Alex. Once I got all set up and started feeding him her tantrum grew worse. She screamed and cried hysterically the entire time I fed Alex which was about 45 mins. Nothing was making her happy, at the end I couldn't even look at her without making her fuss and scream more. All she wanted me to do was "baby night night" aka put Alex to bed. I told her no and she screamed more. I tried to ignore her the best I could and once Alex was done eating and got sleepy then I told Mia "ok Baby night night time". She followed me to the room so I could lay him down and after all her fuss about her wanting him to go to bed, once I put him down she blew up again! Now she didn't want Alex to go night night! Sigh!..... so she screamed and cried again. Alex was trying to get comfy to fall asleep but couldn't due to all the screaming. I couldn't get Mia out of the room, she refused and threw another tantrum. Eventually I just picked her up and carried her out of the room and shut the door behind us. That made things WORSE! She screamed louder and had a big fit. I was starving so I just went to the kitchen to make myself some food.
Thats when my Dad called. The whole house was in chaos. Mia was screaming, Alex kept waking up crying and I was at my wits end. My Dad tried to help by asking to talk to Mia on the phone but every time I brought the phone to her she said "NO!" and threw herself on the floor. This happened 3 times, it wasn't until I hung up the phone did she run over and say "talk phone?!" once she found out she couldn't there went another tantrum. And when I say tantrum I mean screaming, stomping, throwing herself on the floor type of thing. Finally I had enough. I told her I would put her to bed if she kept it up and after 3 warnings I had enough. I grabbed her blanket, threw her over my shoulder and carried her into her room kicking and screaming. I put her on the bed and walked out.
Talk about king of all tantrums after that! She literally shook the house with all the stomping and screaming she did in her room. She was TICKED OFF! BAD! I let her scream and holler for a good 20mins before I went back up. I knew she wouldn't stop and she wouldn't go to sleep.
Once I walked in, she was quiet. I asked her "Are you going to be a good girl?!" "Good girl" she said quietly. I then sat on her bed and talked to her. I explained why she was in her room because she was "crying" and wouldn't stop. I explained in a way she would understand in very simple words. She later said "Sorry Mama" (after I asked her to) and we restarted our day. To my utter most shock she was such a good girl and in such a good mood. It was like nothing had happened! She walked down the stairs without a fight, asked for some milk and we ended up cuddling on the couch watching her shows. She never fussed or cried again, even when Alex woke up!!!! WOW!!!
So I don't know what to make of all of this. Maybe putting her in the room to cry it out for a while helped.... hmmm.... it did seem to help when she was a newborn. I dunno, all I know is that these terrible 2's are TERRIBLE!!!
