Monday, May 26, 2008

Head Bangers Ball



So, I know that all of my blogs are about Holden, but he is just full of good material! Yes, Holden has once again become a problem child. I thought his poor sleeping was a struggle, but this one takes the cake....(mmmmmmmmm...cake).

Holden has, how shall I put this, "anger management" issues. He has a serious temper. It used to be kinda funny, because he was so tiny to be so angry. It is officially not funny. He has started banging his head on things over and over and over, when he is angry. Not just when he is angry. When he doesn't get his way. And it isn't soft banging, it is like someone is holding the back of his hair and banging his head for him. I don't know how he does it so hard!

A girl I work with looked it up, and told me not to worry to much. It isn't that out of the ordinary, and he is too small to do very much damage. Apparently it is soothing for him. I am supposed to ignore him. Or distract him BEFORE he starts. This is ridiculously impossible. There is no way I believe he can't do damage! He has a giant bruise and broken capilaries all over his fore head! It is soooooooo sad!

I put him on my bed once, so he could have at it, but it was too soft. This really made him angry and he searched for something harder to hit his head on.

Okay, so I get that I was REALLY crazy once. Is this my punishment for what I put my mother through!? Cuz at least I was a teenager. He is too young to be this CRAZY!
If anyone has any ideas, please let me know, cuz I am all out of them.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

Absence of husband, Absence of bottle


When I say, "absence of bottle," popular to contrary belief, I do not mean vodka. As hard as it is having Tim gone ALL of the time, I have not turned to drinking!



As you all know, Tim works A LOT. As most of you know, he works out of town A LOT. This is rough, because I miss him of course, but I also struggle taking the kids to work with me all of the time, and then coming home to take care of them some more, while cooking and cleaning, and all of that fun stuff. Well, I have finally found a reason to be thankful for his absence!



As some of you know, (man I sure can sound redundant) Holden has "issues" with sleeping. His main issue being, LACK OF sleeping. Tim and I had been going crazy for some time,until we finally broke down, and allowed Holden to have a bottle of water at bed time, ....and nap time. Basically, any time he needed sleep. This worked great in getting him to sleep. It, however, does not keep him asleep. The combination of getting up every three hours to give him more water, changing his wet jammers, and washing three pairs of jammers a day; has made me come to the conclusion that the bottle MUST go!



Now, Tim and I have struggled with this daunting task in the past, but the all night scream fests, just aren't conducive to Tim's early hours, and long work days. So, this week, I decided to take advantage of Tims' absence, and let the scream fest begin.



The bad news, is Holden and I have been exhausted these past few days. The good news is, IT WORKED. After a couple nights of screaming, Holden can now fall asleep without it. And I am also happy to report, he can stay asleep too!