Two

Friday night we decided to go out to eat with the kids. Dinner out these days is not a relaxing experience by an means. We first threatened the kids about their behavior (due to a previous bad experience) besides a few little spats between the kids, the oldest three did great. It's just my little, non-stop moving 2 year old that exhausts me these days on pretty much any outing! We have started letting her sit in a chair, i know first mistake you say...if we don't want her to serenade the restaurant with her screams, and that we don't... so we compromise...she is two

She is up and down on her chair and all around climbing onto mommy's lap, smearing queso on mommy's clothes, dropping her fork umpteen times, going into her crying fit if just everything is not perfectly to her liking...she is two

After dinner we patiently (pretending to be patient) wait for the whole payment process, while our monkey has had it...she is breaking out and we are quickly losing control...she is two

She yanks away when i try to pick her up to exit the restaurant "i walk" she says but then refuses to hold daddy's hand into the parking lot and so get's picked up and proceeds with the -stiffen body and scream and writhe around routine-anyone who has not had the fun of putting a screaming stiff bodied tantrum throwing two year old into her car seat, well, either your fun is yet to come or you are beyond that stage...bless your soul...no actually bless mine right now...she is two!!

Apparently i am not the only on exhausted by this dinner outing, for five minutes after i put her in bed this is how i found our little two year old.