Toddlers

Kaitlyn is being really trying today. She has thrown her cloth wipes and disposable diapers off her changing table four to five times today. If I had cloth diapers stuffed and up there as well as the container of wet wipes full she would have had those everywhere too. I'm tired of picking them up so now I have moved to making Kaitlyn pick it all up. Why not she made the mess and knows how to pick things up. Since the second mess of the day I've had her hand me everything while I reorganize it. I try not to let her seem me chuckle while she stoops over and hands me everything behind her back. Her I am looking at a little booty and back, reaching almost down to the floor anyway, so I can retrieve diapers and cloth wipes from her hands. There have been spankings. Yes, we spank! Don't confuse a spanking with a beating. Kaitlyn gets her thigh swatted once or twice when needed. It took a couple swats to get her going a few minutes ago, but she finally handed me everything. After picking it all up I told her to get on her bed. It's amazing she can climb a changing table/dresser, but not a bed. I gave her a little boost up. I wasn't downstairs no time when I heard the distinct noises of her making another mess. I immediately went back upstairs to see all my hard work on the floor again. No spankings were needed this time to get her picking everything up (I put the cloth wipes away this time as well as the water bottle (to wet wipes)) and headed to bed. I haven't heard anything from her. I hope she is actually going to sleep. She used her mess making as an excuse not nap this morning.

Oh, I better go call the vet.

Beat the child it will not die...

...or will it? Now would be a good time for mom and dad to visit. Someone else needs to take care of this child for a while. I've had it! Yesterday I walked into her room to find this...

And today, this...

I like to call these the after pictures.

I've never wanted to spank her more. It's not just that she made a mess, but she broke stuff too. There was a double picture frame of Neal's parents on the shelf that is now two separate frames. Thank goodness they have loops on the back to hang them from because they can no longer stand up. She knocked her big picture off the wall and busted part of the Plexiglas. I had to really work at getting it back together enough to hang on the wall.

And one other complaint now that I'm on a roll... Who in the world picked out that purple carpet?!!! All our upstairs carpet is this lovely purple color. Just so Blues Clues fans don't feel left out with all our crazy Barney carpet we have your carpet downstairs. That's right purple upstairs and blue down.

Great... now I have to feed my little room wrecker.