King of Drama

M has been given the above title today. He is very dramatic but he really topped himself today.

He likes to play with remotes, phones and the computer mouse. I'm sure this is standard for all toddlers. Today he decided to take Daddy's mouse off the table and try to run with it. When told to put it back, he did, with force. He held his hand up, tightly gripping the mouse, Glenn said "M do not throw it", I said "M, gently" and M threw the mouse at the laptop. Of course he did. He's an almost 2 year old boy. He throws everything. (we are working on it but it's taking time) Glenn grabbed his hand and slapped it (not hard but enough for shock value) with a big firm "No, we do not throw" M threw himself to the ground, covered his eyes and started to cry. Very loudly, occasionally peeking between his fingers. Then he got up, went to the table, grabbed the mouse and repeated the entire thing with the identical results. He did this about 4 times until he finally grabbed a flyer and threw that. We ignored him because it's a flyer and we don't really care about it. (I know we should be consistent but we were a bit tired by then) The second the flyer hit the ground so did M. Eyes covered, wailing away. He did this another 3 times. I think he was waiting for one of us to give his hand a slap. Instead he ended up just crying for no reason on the floor. While we laughed. Probably not the most appropriate or responsible response but it was too funny to ignore.

He did finally give up and go off to play and he left us with the knowledge that we are really in for it with this child. Thank goodness he's got so many hugs and kisses to go around because I think that if he didn't have that lovely sweet side we would have to consider selling him to the gypsy's :-) Well, maybe just lending him to someone until he's made it through the terrible two's. That's allowed isn't it?

Here's hoping that he wakes up from his nap with a little less drama for the remainder of the day. I'm afraid if I laugh too much more he's going to take offense and heaven knows what that would lead him to do.