Show and Share Day

Today was Show and Share Day. Julia brought her quacking duck. She loves that toy (not as much as "baby" though). However, when I went to pick her up it was abandoned on the floor...oh well. Grandma and Papere came over for dinner. Julia was really happy to see them. It's been 3 days since she saw them last. Julia and I will be meeting them for dinner tomorrow evening. Mommy has to go to a party and I have hockey later so they have volunteered to babysit.

Julia and I have had some battles this week. She is getting more and more defiant. Terrible-Twos maybe? On Monday she refused to put her mittens on when I picked her up. She was screaming! It wasn't that cold out so it didn't really matter but I couldn't back down at that point (TIP: Pick your battles carefully). I struggled with her for 10 minutes before I called in reinforcements. Mia (Julia's teacher) came over to help. I held Julia on my lap in a bear hug and Mia shoved the mittens on. "Good job Julia! You put your mittens on!". I was so frustrated and HOT! I was sweating bullets. Julia was so upset. She had huge tears and her face was all blotchy. A few more times this week I've had to use time-outs, time-out threats, threaten to put her back in bed, threaten to leave without her if she didn't put her coat on...frustrating.

Julia didn't wear her mittens yesterday or today.

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