{"id":3890,"date":"2011-11-25T19:44:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3890"},"modified":"2011-11-25T19:44:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T23:44:04","slug":"tantrums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=3890","title":{"rendered":"Tantrums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I cleaned out and re-organized our linen closet (ie, the &#8220;everything gets stuffed in there&#8221; closet), went through a few shelves in the bathroom cabinet that needed it, cleared off my desk, installed a second shelf above my desk (that was a disaster, couldn&#8217;t find the damn stud), hung a photo on the wall, went through half of the stuff on the table&#8230; oh, and did a load of laundry (err&#8230; half, I guess I should put that in the dryer now?). I feel accomplished but have a massive headache.<\/p>\n<p>The headache may not be so much due to doing stuff around the house, but rather due to the <i>screaming toddler tantrums<\/i> that have been happening all day. She&#8217;s really been refining her tantruming technique, she&#8217;s progressed to stomping her little feet and following me around while screaming at me. And it&#8217;s usually because of something terribly horrible like me refusing to put her on the dangerous chair that spins. I know, I know, Kate is very underprivileged. She wants what she wants, and if she doesn&#8217;t get it she&#8217;s going to throw a fit. I am less than thrilled about this new stage.<\/p>\n<p>Normally Kate won&#8217;t let me use the computer (she wants to play on it too) and gets cranky if I sit on the couch watching my TV shows (but hers are okay), but as long as I&#8217;m up and moving around she&#8217;s good. She plays with her toys, I take breaks to chase her around and tickle her belly, I get stuff done and we&#8217;re all good. Except today. No, today this was not acceptable. She wanted me to play with her every second. If I tried doing something else, going into another room, or sitting down, <i>tantrum<\/i>. I was especially thrilled by the tantrum she threw when the shelf was falling down and Den and I had to run over to hold it up and try to fix it. She&#8217;s just standing at our feet screaming at us. We had to put her in a quick time-out just to get her out of the danger zone so we could fix it! (Boy was she ever pissed.)<\/p>\n<p>I suspected that her crazy moodiness today was indicative of something bugging her but I hadn&#8217;t a clue what. And sure enough after she and I both had a dose of tylenol we&#8217;re both feeling much less cranky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I cleaned out and re-organized our linen closet (ie, the &#8220;everything gets stuffed in there&#8221; closet), went through a few shelves in the bathroom cabinet that needed it, cleared off my desk, installed a second shelf above my desk (that was a disaster, couldn&#8217;t find the damn stud), hung a photo on the wall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kates-second-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3891,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3890\/revisions\/3891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}