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.
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6 comments:
Well, if it makes you feel better, my mom dropped me when I was just a few days old and I turned out okay. :) I think, it just toughens them up! On the bright side, at least she's doing it out of love and not malice!
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Mandy
Wow that is scary but what Mandy says is true about her doing it out of love and not malice. She is too young to understand she could have hurt him. I never experienced that situation so I don't know what to tell you but it sounds like you did the right thing as far as leave the room when you were so angry and then go back to talk to her. We mommies have to do that sometimes when we lose our cool okay not sometimes, a lot of times.
just a thought, you want to be a stay at home mommy right? maybe you should be at home at nap time and not change their schedules.
i find it is always the parents fault when i see a crying child. children are happier with a constant schedule for sleep and eating. children are happier at home than being dragged around at these times.
being a stay at home mom means just that! while they are so young that is where they need to be. if you have things you need to do during the day either wait until you husband gets home, or get up an hour earlier, get ready to go as soon as the kids are up fed and changed. get out early and be home at nap time. this is what you wanted, enjoy being home with your children, other mothers are not as lucky.
also praise your husband for working so hard so you can have the privilege. make his home coming a exciting time. kiss him have the kids run to him, have a meal ready to sit down too! he is a wonderful man, let him know it!
what an incredibly judgemental comment from someone who is not even courageous enough to say who they are. if you have no idea what is going on in my life then leave your comments and your judgements to yourself. i'm guessing you think you know me if you can say that my husband is a wonderful man. and i'm not sure where in that blog you got that i am not home when he gets home with a hot meal and my toddler running to greet him at the door. next time be woman enough to say who you are. i am woman enough to share these things with people who i think are just going to enjoy a story or relate in some way.
To Judgemental Anonymous,
I would really like to know who you are. I would like to see how your children have turned out, if you have any. I would also like to see how unhappy of a human you are, to be so judgemental, harsh and down right rude.
I personally take great offense to that comment. I am a stay at home mom, whose husband works full-time, and goes to school in the evenings. I don't have the luxury of running errands when he's home to stay with the kids. And when he is home, we enjoy time WITH him, not running off to shop.
As for Blythe, she is a wonderful mother, who is always aware of her kids needs. They ARE on a schedule, whether they take naps at home, or elsewhere. She loves being home with her children, and wouldn't want it any other way.
Basically, we stay at home Moms try our hardest, and put our children's well being first. I don't know what wacked out way of thinking you come from, but it's not bad to allow your children to cry!
I just hope that you can look into yourself, find your faults, and fix them as easily as you expect others to. But by the way you talk, you must not have faults. So good job! I'm sure you will be translated soon!
Ah hah! I think we all now know who the anonymous comment is from. It is extremely clear. I hope you log in and read this and know you should be ashamed of yourself for many MANY things. It's just so sad.
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