Wednesday, April 2, 2008

What a beast

What a nightmare
Ok, so you know how i have said over and over again how Allie just loves her baby brother a little too much. like scary too much. well today was my nightmare come true.
So we were at my mom’s house hanging out. Allie had taken a little cat nap around 10am which threw off her whole nap schedule. i tried to put her to bed at 1pm but she literally screamed her lungs out for 40 minutes. so we got her up and went and laid on my mom’s bed. Bo was asleep next me on one side and Allie on the other. i took a little nap, but i think allie stayed awake the whole time watching Little Bear. so after the 15th time she hit me in the face i decided i was done and we got up. only she was acting like a little terd and not wanting to leave Bo alone to finish his nap. I had to threaten her with going back upstairs to go to bed so she finally listened to me and left the room.
a few minutes later my sister came out to me and said, i don’t know what happened but Allie was sitting next to Bo on the bed and now he is fussing a little bit. She had gotten allie away, but i went in to assess the situation. by the time i got there he had already fallen back asleep. i went out and talked to Allie once again saying that we don’t touch baby Bo when he is night night. If you do it again you are going to have to go back to bed upstairs. do you understand mommy? Yes.
ok so not even 2 minutes later i hear Bo start crying. i go into the bedroom to find him on the floor with allie standing over him. i totally freaked. i have no idea how he got there, but based on where he started and where he ended up i can only think that she somehow picked him up and dropped him. at least i hope thats what happend. otherwise he would have had to have been rolled off the very high bed, hit the floor and rolled again and rotated somewhere in there.
this was the first time i truely wanted to beat the living daylights out of my child. i was so angry i just didn’t even know what to do. i had to take a couple of deep breaths, hand of Bo to my sister and try and deal with allie. She was so tired and almost 2 that she was being totally unmanagable i felt the best thing for me to do was just leave the room and talk kindly to her later and hope that she understands.
so in less than 2 weeks i drop one kid on her head and she turns around and drops my other kid. i hope they turn out alright.
moral of the story..........let her keep crying until she actually falls asleep.