I’m not a huge coffee drinker. If I do drink coffee it has so much extra stuff in it that you can’t actually taste the coffee. Today, however, I needed something, I even got an extra shot in my Frappuccino!
I’m not sure who exactly coined the phrase “terrible twos” but I am pretty sure they didn’t have to deal with the after twos. It should be “terrible toddlers”. As infants, they cry when they need something, food, a clean diaper, tylenol, sleep, etc. Toddlers, on the other hand, cry because they left their shoes at the baby sitter’s house. This morning my toddler cried because yesterday he broke all the bananas off the bunch and so they were all super brown this morning. He also cried when I made him take the clothes he slept in to the dirty hamper, which he does everyday, along with taking his medicine.

Another thing, the toddler stage is where their attitude starts coming in. Since he was mad that he left his sandals at the sitter’s house, he did not want to wear his flip flops. These are the two shoes he WANTS to wear in the summer; sandals and flip flops. So what does he do? He knocks them off the end of the couch with way too much tude and says he doesn’t like them, that they are “ew”. Okay son, you wear them everyday but now they are “ew”. Besides, I wasn’t even putting them on him. He wanted to wear his paw patrol tennis shoes but his tude got the best of him so as he walked by the flip flops he…got rude. I call it being ugly. No matter how cute you are, throw a fit and you ugly! Needless to say he did not enjoy my reaction.

I do have to say that, even though they have big tudes, they sure don’t last very long. By the time we walked out to the car he was happy. No tude, just goofiness. Just an example of his goofiness, this past Sunday my mom had a hard time stifling her laughter because I had to tell my son to “get Fred out of his cereal.” Fred, from Scooby Doo, was taking a swim in my son’s Trix cereal.

“Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction.”
–2 Timothy 4:2
“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love.”
— Ephesians 4:2