My little twit...

We finished this novel today. I highly reccomend it; funny, fast paced, and enough illustrations to keep the young'uns engaged. Roald Dahl is definitely in my top author list. Maybe we'll do The Witches next.

Guinness is being a bit of a twit... Whiny, tired, fits, bad behaviors that he repeats and repeats and repeats. Don't pick that up. Don't pick that up. Don't pick that up. Come here. Come here. Come here. So different from Gemma in that she was correctable. With her you could do a time out and it would work. Or stickers. Or a prize. She understood that good behavior gets rewarded and was desirable. Guinness can not wrap his head around it. He's also not sleeping great. Chris and I are exhausted from putting back to bed 5 or 6 times a night, so he must be tired too. Today he even fell asleep in the chariot. Something else to consider is that he is eating a tonne; breakfast at 8, snack at 9, and 10, lunch at 11:30, snack at 1, and 4, supper at 5:30, and then a huge snack again at 7:30. Growing boy :). Need to give him more cuddles, I think.

The Situation

Guinness has been using so many new words lately: example, I'd prefer..., actually, exasperated. Then today we were a little late getting lunch because I was working on my bike, and when I got in he was already standing on the stool in the kitchen, hands on the cupboard doors. "Mom, are you going to take care of the food situation here?" So I laugh and retort, "Why don't YOU take care of the food situation!" He says, "I can't take care of any situation! I'm just Guinness!"

In bad news, after school today he walked up to a little girl who was enjoying an after school cookie, and snatched it right of her hand and ate it!!!! So that ended play time early today.