On the Edge of a Cliff and Ready to Fly

Josh has been asserting independence lately and showing strong dislike when you don’t give him what he wants in a quick fashion. (I am trying to frame this as positively as possible)

Josh has been throwing full out, screaming, throwing himself on the floor tantrums.

Just today, while at Uncle Drew’s house, Josh was hungry. I gave him a mum-mum. When the mum-mum was half done, he spotted a cup of carrots in his diaper bag. He grabbed the carrots and handed them to me. I told him to finish his mum-mum first.

He threw the mum-mum on the floor, pointed vigorously at the cup of carrots, and thew himself down on the floor, hitting is head in the process, while I was trying to open the container and take it to the sink to drain!!

Tonight, he was crying and his face was beet red. I had given him tylenol earlier, and was working on giving him some orajel. He was laying on our bed and wailing just as loud as he could. I picked him up, carried him into the kitchen, and started to warm up a sippy of milk. When Joshua saw the sippy of milk, he started reaching for it and crying. I had to set him down so I could get the lid on the cup.

He folded himself over on the floor, placed his forehead down and started wailing loudly. I decided to take the sippy cup and walk away from him because he was so upset, telling him, “if you want your milk, you need to calm down and follow me.” When he saw me walking away with the sippy cup, he followed me into our bedroom, then threw himself on the floor again. I waited a bit till he calmed down some, then got him into our bed, and Donald fed him the milk.

I am not sure what is going on – I guess it’s normal (I should get out my parenting book and see.) I think his cousin Jaxon has had some terrible two type fits as well…. need to start reading all the parenting magazines and books that have been recommended to me over the years for ideas!!