My Two Year Old Is Driving Me Crazy!

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For the last 2 days and nights, Novalee has been very difficult, and for the first time I am feeling the need to stop certain behaviors. But I am clueless on how to proceed.

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Oddly enough, she turns two in a week. Terrible 2’s are here in full strength. Here’s some of the crap she does that drives me absolutely batty

  • Transferring liquids in to different containers – this never ends well. Ever. I cant think of one time that even 20% of the liquid made it into the other container.
  • Transferring liquids to the floor.
  • Non-stop, for 24 hours – literally – dialog in the house goes like this -
    “Mommy Mommy Mommy”…
    “yeeeeeeees?”…
    “Dora!”
    “That’s right! Dora!”
    “Yup! OK”.
    “Mommy Mommy Mommy”
    “yeeeeeees?”
    “Loui!”
    “That’s Right! That’s Loui”
    “Mommy mommy mommy”…
  • She calls me “Mommy mommy mommy daddy”. Argh.
  • Every 15 minutes while sleeping, she half-wakes up and yells “mommy mommy mommy”, and Erin replies every time. Every time. One of these two is waking me up almost every 15 minutes from 10pm to 6am.
  • I can’t hold a single conversation with Erin that is not interrupted with – you guessed it “Mommy Mommy Mommy Daddy”.
  • When Novalee wants to speak, there is nothing you can do but look directly at her and say ‘What’? Nothing else will do. You can’t NOT look directly at her or she will continue to say your name, even if you respond.

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That being said, goddamn to I love that little monkey. Now I feel bad for complaining.

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I take it all back.

 

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  • Yeah! beutiful kid!
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  • uncle mark
    ENJOY IT NOW!! SOON IT WILL BE DAD...MORE MONEY,MONEY,MONEY...KEYS TO THE VETTE,VETTE, VETTE.....SEE YOU IN THE MORNING, MORNING MORNING.
  • DEB
    CHRIS IS RIGHT, SHE WILL HAVE A VERY HARD TIME FINDING A MAN AS GOOD AS HER DADDY..........
  • There is a country song, and i am sure you have heard it - but "You're gonna miss this". If you haven't heard it, look it up, and listen to it. I have found that everything with my girls that I once complained about, I now reflect on, and I really do miss it.

    The points you make are pretty funny though - and TOTALLY spot on. I LOVE the one about transferring liquids. Our 4 year old still does that! lol. For ours though, "terrible two's" came closer to 3 years old. 2 was just a practice round. ;)

    As for them interrupting you, plan on it for a while. Our girls are now 4 and 6, and we have spent thousands on play sets, trampolines, wii games, dolls, play houses, disney movies, you name it. No matter WHICH one they are playing with, they feel the need to tell us EVERYTHING, EVERYTIME, ANYTHING happens! It got so bad with the outdoor stuff that we threatened to lock the back door and make them walk all the way around the house if they wanted to tell us something. ;)

    Really though... you're going to miss it. Patronize her and spend a lot of time querying her, and just letting her talk. My little girls love that time so much and I do too. I think you might have screwed up in one area... you are too good of a dad, and you've set the bar too high. Nothing will ever be good enough now and its all your fault. ;) Look at the upside... she will need to find a man who is at least as good as her daddy, and you're making that tough - plus you have the guns as backup.
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  • brent
    its just the begining just breath and call me if got a ? i'll try 2 help
  • James
    Gogo Duck Tape!
  • Donna
    THAT'S SO FUNNY. TERRIBLE TWOS. HOW I MISS THEM. I'M THRILLED THAT NOVALEE CAN SAY MY NAME NOW, I DON'T CARE HOW MANY TIMES SHE SAYS IT! LOL JUST WAIT, THE BEST IS YET TO COME. ENJOY EACH STAGE. THE TEENAGE YEARS ARE A REAL KILLER.
  • DEB
    PS AND YES GRAMMIE IS A HOG.......................
  • DEB
    OH THE TERRIBLE TWO'S GOT TO LOVE THEM. IT SEEMS HARD TO BELIEVE SOMETIMES BUT BELIEVE ME YOU WILL MISS THIS PHASE WHEN IT'S OVER I KNOW I WILL GRAMMIE..GRAMMIE..GRAMMIE..GRAMMIE...GRAMMIE..GRAMMIE..GRAMMIE... GOD HOW I LOVE THAT CHILD AS DO YOU
  • jack
    Bumpa says to Novalee ... wheres dottie...shes sweeeeeping.... i will say wheres loui.... she goes loui... begone or your a goob.......but the best one was Deb burping in the car and Novalee called her a HOG.... i'm still laughing over that one.
  • jack
    OH SHE'S GOING TO GET A KICK OUT OF IT.... :-J.... Novalee also says Daddys going to take me shwimmming. ha ha ha
  • Blue cherries - i love that. For those of you who don't know, 'blue cherries' are blueberries.
  • Why is that?... =)
  • jack
    YOU WAIT UNTIL DEBBIE READS THIS....MMMMMMMMMMMMM.
  • jack
    Hah hah hah My boy payback is such a bitch.... bumpa bumpa bumpa... what dear!!! Dora! Dora.... OK....bumpa, bumpa, bumpa. JUICE!!!!! yes dear. Grammie, Grammie Grammie. Yes Honey!....Dora, Dora. Yes. Honey....Grammie, Grammie, Grammie, blue cherries...hmmm ??????? You just got to love it. I'm laughing my ass off.. You could always play it back at her. hmmmm. Novalee, Novalee, Novalee. SLEEP!!!!!! LOL
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