Have kids, they said. It'll be fun, they said. Oh, just wait for those terrible two's, they said with an obnoxious smile. I don't see anything funny about it. Amarri just turned two. It's only been a month and I'm ready to sit in a corner to rock back and forth with a goldfish. The pinching, the biting, the waking up in the middle of the night with bloodcurdling screams all because he just couldn't go right back to sleep. I don't remember this with my first son.
Picture it, my house, two weeks ago. I have to be prepared to get up at 7 am for an 8:30 appointment and then go to work shortly after. I try to go sleep, but I don't really start dozing off until about one. No big deal, I can handle about 6 1/2 hours. Until the kid wakes up screaming at 4 o'clock like the house is on fire. Christian was awake too because he went to bed so early, but at least he was quiet about it. Amarri, on the other hand, felt like since he was up, everybody had to be up.
Usually, we can give him a pacifier or a cup of milk and he'll go right back to sleep. Not tonight. He tossed, he turned, he pinched all on my chest while I tried my best mommy techniques to settle him. When my nose ring came out from getting caught in his hair after a toss, I turned on the light to find it and that's when I realized he was wide awake. I never went back to sleep that night because he never went back to sleep. The best I could do was get a nap in after work, which was around 6pm.
It's like I literally have to fight this kid. He thinks it's funny to push my face to the point that he starts to actually slap me and then I have to shut the whole play operation down. He won't stay still, he gives people the stink-face like he's trying to figure out why they're talking to him, and he refuses to let his brother play. He takes toys out his brother's hands and I can't count the number of times he has snatched my phone from me and thrown it across the room. That's his way of getting my attention.
This is rough.
Whatever happened to just saying "mama" when you want something? Why do you have to lose your mind when I offer you something you don't want? Just say NO. Sheesh, it's like he wants to remind me that he's the baby so he should get all the attention. No sir, it must be divided equally, no matter how much it physically hurts me to do so. I'm tired, just let me...get...like a little...*yawn*...just more five minutes...*Zzzzzz*.
