The Young Man is now eighteen months old…. and as my Mum says he is practising being two as in the terrible twos. Overnight my lovely natured baby has turned into a throwing things, having tantrums, not wanting to eat boy. 95% of the time he is still lovely but that other 5% of the time can be a real pain.
The hardest thing is working out how best to deal with this new behaviour. As much as I want to tell him ‘off’ when he throws things I know that he is really only doing it for attention so me telling him off is only giving him what he wants – albeit in a negative fashion.
Luckily Adman’s workload has dropped off and he has actually been at home for three weekends straight now and home every night. Its been wonderful and really nice to be family again.
My Mum is housesitting for friends for the next 7 weeks which will be even nicer as we will be able to get into our little family groove again.
Our house plans have just been finalised and are off to Council for consent shortly so hopefully building will begin in the next month or too.
Fingers crossed
