A Day of Tests...and It's only 1:00

My darling adorable son has chosen today to test, test and test again, all the things he should and shouldn't be doing. Let's see...

First he woke up at 6:30, screaming at the top of his lungs. The waking up at 6:30 is a pretty regular occurrence around here, but today for some reason, it was exceptionally hard to get out of bed.

He then wanted some juice and something to eat...only he actually "wanted" everything to eat. First it was cheerios, so I pulled those out of the cupboard..."no, no no" he said. Okay, what then? Yogurt...fine, yogurt it is..."no, no, no", toast..."no, no, no",etc, etc. When he finally settled on some applesauce, only to once again want something else...I ended that game. Once we have started eating something, we don't get something else. Well, he had a fit, throwing his juice across the kitchen. Time out #1

Then he was on my bed watching a movie while I got ready for the day, and proceeded to dump my bedside water all over.

While loading the washing machine for some much needed laundry, he began unloading it just as fast. When I told him it was time to do the laundry, not take it out and that he should help me put the clothes into the washing machine...he hit my arm and said "no". Time out #2.

It was then time to feed Kynlee and while that was happening, Kallen was dumping his crayon box all over the floor and scattering them throughout the room, while looking at me with the "what are you going to do about it" look. I'm getting pretty good at doing things one handed mind you, so up I got...forced him to pick up every crayon, and Time out #3.

After the time out, he immediately ran to the table, picked up a crayon and began drawing all over the table, chair, and wall. Time out #4.

*At this point he's crying when I get up because he knows he has to sit in time out again.

I then tell him to bring a crayon and his coloring book over to the couch where I'm sitting and feeding Kynlee, and that I would color with him. Great idea...well that only lasted until I had to burp her and switch sides, which meant I had to let go of my crayon and stop coloring. He instantly threw the crayon across the room and himself onto the floor. Time out #5.

And it only kept going. While playing outside he started to walk over to the neighbors house, and I told him no. He looked at me, looked back at the house and began running away from me.

When he was finished with his lunch, he started throwing the remaining food all across the room. After he cleaned that up, he walked by his sister who was lying peacefully on her blanket, and kicked her arm. He then grabbed my lunch that was sitting on the counter and dropped it on the ground... after I told him he couldn't have a bite (he had already eaten his lunch and if he wasn't done, he shouldn't have gotten down). Once again he cleaned up that mess, and while I was putting things away, ran into my craft room, grabbed a pair of scissors and started cutting things with them.

NAP TIME...I put him down, only to hear banging and crashing all throughout his room the minute I left. After going into his room 4 different times, and laying him back into bed I simply grabbed Kynlee, went into my bedroom, shut the door and closed my eyes for a much needed nap.

I woke up, didn't hear a thing, so I poked my head into his room. He's out like a light, sprawled out across his bed.

Now here I am enjoying the monotonous motor noise of Kynlee's swing, the annoying chirping of the birds (which at this moment doesn't seem so annoying), and the light background noise of Kallen's radio. Oh the calmness of it all!!!

Hopefully when he wakes up, we can start over with a clean slate and not wear out the carpet in the time out corner anymore!