Oh NO

 

Wyatt is now beginning to use the word no. He says no to things he wants, no to things he doesn’t want, no to me, no to dad, no to every question there is.
Ugh I now hate the word no.

I hate that he is now entering into the dreaded trouble twos and I hate that I now have to do timeouts a lot more the normal which he doesn’t seem to care about.

Lately when he gets in trouble “I say you better stop that or you will go into time out. Do you want to go into time out?“

“Yeah.” He says.

“Fine.” I smirk as I put him into time out. Thinking he might regret it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAOHOHOHAHHAHAH… –do you like my evil little laugh?

When he is in time out he lays on the floor and sings or he hits his head on the wall and he plays with his shoes. He does everything but think about why he is in time out. UGH which that leads me to put him in multiply time outs.

I sometimes get so mad that he seems to enjoy timeouts that I WANT to scream in his face and threaten the worse things that I can just so he’d cry so then I know that he is upset that he is in time out. But I don’t I just continue to reset the timer until he finally sits there and GETS that he is indeed in trouble.

Then there is the dreaded attitude that comes along with the almost trouble twos. The screaming for no reason especially in public places which that then makes me stop what I’m doing and become a “mean mom.” which then of course gets me the stares.

YES PEOPLE I DISCIPLINE MY CHILD IN PUBLIC REGARDLESS!!! SO STOP STARING AND GET OVER IT ALREADY!!

He is also become he’s own little person and he knows how to hurt your feelings.

Example:
Last week I took on some more hours at work so didn’t get to have a lot of my days with him daddy did. when I finally had the day off and we could go do things. (which means running errands that have been put off because daddy doesn’t do them even if I’m working. Great I am now a week behind. sigh.)
When I tried to get Wyatt out of his car seat he proceeded to tell me with a little smirk on his face “Mommy NO!! daddy.” My heart broke a little there. As daddy happily took him out of the car seat I thought in my head you haven’t really seen me for days and you WANT daddy?

He is also now getting out of his bed after I put him to sleep for the night. I’m not really complaining about this because it’s really only 3 times or so that he comes out.

 
He will walk out and peek around the corner and proceed to sit down in the hallway where I “can’t see him.” I feel like he is saying in his head HA HA  I’m awake and you can’t see me which I find to be hilarious because when I go into the hallway to get him the look on his face is priceless.

Its shear fear. Like an oh I am in deep shit now. So I can’t help but laugh in my head as I walk him back into bed.

SIGH… Wish me luck as I enter into the dreaded trouble twos because I have a feeling that I might not survive it.

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Fire truck beds are made JUST for little boys named Wyatt.

Now I have had a lot of friends and family tell me that putting Wyatt in a toddler bed right now was a bad idea. “He is too little” “he’ll climb out of it and get into everything.” “His wont sleep in it.” but the main one is “Why are you trying to make him grow up to fast?”

Look I am all for making him stay a baby forever but when it comes down to it I want to a raise an independent adult who is very secure about him self and to do that you HAVE to start at an early age.

I have always tried to make sure that I have allowed him to be who is but also I have never treated him like he was a baby. The reason for that is that I didn't want to limit him. I wanted to make sure that he was capable to do the things that I asked and WHEN I asked him to. So when he is older he feels like he has had every advantage to become that successful adult that I know that he can become.

Last month as I was looking on line I saw this very cool toddler fire truck bed and that made me think hmm… is Wyatt ready to transition into a toddler bed?

I did not go into this with out putting a lot of thought into it. I researched it. I put a lot of discussions up at varies different mom sites Click here to read the discussion I put on circleofmoms.com and I watched how Wyatt was when he was sleeping. I made this discussion based solely off how it would benefit him not anyone else including myself.

After convincing Cody that I knew that he is ready for this BIG step we placed the order for his bed and for the whole month before it arrived I talked to Wyatt and told him how BIG BOYS sleep in BIG BOY BEDS and how it will be very exciting to be able to get in and out of bed all by him self.

When the day finally came to pick up his bed I was nervous I kept thinking of what others have told me and I began to second guess my discussion but it was to late. We couldn't pick up the bed until after Wyatt's bed time so I put him in our bed so we could put the bed together that night so we would have it for his naps and bedtime the next day.

When he woke up the next day we showed him his NEW BED! Now I think we were more excited about it than him but he did think it was pretty cool.

Nap time rolled around I couldn't wait to see how it would be. We did our normal nap time routine which is reading a story holding him for 5 minutes only and laying him in bed and I leave.

He laid in the bed just fine and when I left the room he was still sort of awake but he didn't get up or out of the bed he slept the entire 2 hours for his nap and when he woke up he got out of his bed and came and found me in the living room like it was no big deal.

When it came down to the night time we did our same routine and I put him in his bed. He only woke up once (because he is sick and it was time for his meds.) I left him in the bed and gave him his meds and he laid right back down and slept until the morning. I then woke up to him staring at me at 7:30am. The house wasn't trashed he didn't get into anything and it was nice to not wake up to him yelling for me to get him out of his crib.

It’s been about 3 days or so now and it’s still the same thing NO PROBLEMS. What so funny is that when the house is quite and I am playing on FB cleaning while he naps all of a sudden he is there wanting lunch it makes my heart jump little since I am not use to him just being able to come and go as he pleases but I have to admit that I love that I don't have to stop what I am doing to go and pick him up out of his crib.

So to all those haters I TOLD YOU SO see I know what is best for MY SON so let’s not ever question that again okay? Just because he might ready before other kids doesn't mean that I am pushing him to grow up before he is ready too I am just allowing him to simply grow up regardless if others think he isn't ready to or not.

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