Living the Fairytale

The Terrible Two's. Right! Three's are much harder. But Sam decided to drop a bombshell the week after he turned 4. He has been more aggressive than his brother, but I think that is for obvious reason. Ethen actually has someone to wrestle with now. But Sam decided to take things to extreme. He hits and kicks, most of the time for no reason. During Sacrament Meeting, in the middle of the Sacrament, he decided that he wanted to use Ethen's notebook. I took out some pages from the notebook to appease both boys, but this wasn't what Sam wanted. He started his fit. I gave him a few seconds and then grabbed him in order to calm him down. He started kicking and hitting me. So much so, that I stood up and dragged him out of the chapel. I had to pin his legs so that he didn't kick poor Sister Cannon in the pew in front of us. Of course as soon as he realized he was going out, he screamed. Loud. Now our ward isn't a quiet ward. There are A LOT of kids in th...

Oh too too funny to not post. Early Monday morning, Sam came into our room and told me that he pee'd in his bed. That hasn't happened for a while. It took me a minute before I realized that he had asked to sleep on the floor when I put him to bed that night. Great, here comes the carpet cleaner. And Monday night, during DWTS , Sam had only been in bed for about 10 minutes , when he started screaming at Ethen . The older two had gotten into trouble for fighting and had to go to bed early. Ethen had been asleep about an hour. I went in to see what Sam's deal was and witnessed Ethen getting back into bed. Sam was screaming " Ethen pee'd on my blanket!" Sure enough, the blanket had a rather large wet spot that seeped into the sheet and there were splatter marks on the floor. The kid had gotten out of bed, and wizzed on his brother. Just thankful for the blanket being there. Of course Ethen remember nothing about it in the morning. I just couldn...