Terrible 2's Already?

As you can see by the previous post, we have made no progress on the binky front. In fact, it has gotten much, much worse. He doesn’t even trust us to hold in while he eats. Any attempt to mess with his “me” (we have no idea why he calls it that) are met with screams, tears and general unrest. I know it needs to go soon, right now I am saying after flu season. We will see, we may be pulling it out on his way to preschool. It hasn’t seemed to impact his vocabulary, he continues to spout off new words left and right, recently adding “MINE” to his repitoire. The towel that I put on the floor when they are taking a bath, yes that is his and Grant had better not stand on it and don’t even think about wrapping up in the blanket we keep in the living room, it's his. The Santa picture kind of sums it up. It was my second year in charge and I worked so hard finding a new Santa and a nicer backdrop and was so excited to get good pictures of my kids. I don’t know what I was thinking. At least we could all be there this year, last year we were still keeping Ryan away from crowds since he was only 5 months out of surgery. Hard to believe what a difference a year makes. No real story behind the basketball pic, just Kyle being his superstar self. He is SOO excited for us to open up the gifts he picked out at the Santa shop. He has wrapped and rewrapped and tried his best to get us to agree to an early open date.

Random quotes heard lately: “Don’t kill me, you love me” (Grant, to Kyle) – “Digger”, “I’m thirsty”, “Empty”, “Dog”, “Dog”, “Dog” (Ryan to anyone who is listening) - “Here’s a tip, mom, we like hamburgers, not meat burgers” (Kyle to me after I had made a chuck roast into bbq beef sandwiches and was pretty proud of myself, until we sat down. Meal time is about to push me over the edge. If it’s not a spaghetti (with store bought premade meatballs on the side, no sauce or something that was at one point frozen, they “hate” it and “feel sick”. Can you imagine how the turkey meatball soup went over today? It had spinach in it.