It's been a while since I've blogged and I have absolutely no excuses. Last week I was feeling kinda stalled on progress. I had a couple of rough pain bouts that kinda came out of nowhere. And I guess in comparison to all the progress I'd made early on, it was a little frustrating.
The past few days though, I feel like things are moving in the right direction. The pain has been in check and I've been doing more, little by little. And how could I not feel better when the weather turned into amazingness?!
It's been lucky I've been feeling better too, because C has had some genuine 2 year old moments over the past week. I guess what I said before about her holding off on being truly 2 is expiring. She's given me my time and now she's ready for some good old fashioned power struggles! The tantrum is usually so irrational that it's not always terribly frustrating though. Sometimes, it's even kind of funny (I know, I know, I'm supposed to validate, not laugh!) Maybe I say that because there haven't been that many yet. I'll report back on that later. And thank god the meltdowns haven't been in public! She is a good talker, so usually when she is melting down about something, she can't express what she wants because she doesn't actually want ANYTHING, except to get a good cry out of her system.
Fortunately, another thing I've discovered is that 2 year olds don't hold grudges. One minute she can be doing a foot-stomp of fury and the next she will be sweetly thanking me for something. She can be as full of love and affection as fury and I love that. This kid adores her mom, her dad, her grandma and any other kid who happens to come along. She is at times a little aggressively affectionate with other kids, but, hey, it's better than biting them.
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