gfrancie: (housewife)
gfrancie ([personal profile] gfrancie) wrote2009-02-25 03:16 pm

I will even throw in some twine and tie it to your car.

Senor Onion has been showing off how Two he can be today.
I am not amused and I am thisclose to selling him.
For cheap.

He really is a good kid most of the time but this morning he has woken up with the urge to make every single task an absolute trial or terror. The laws of physics piss him off. The fact that I won't let him watch something on TV pisses him off. That we lack kiwi pisses him off. That the screws on his work-bench don't come apart in two pieces? The screws are the worst thing EVER and must be thrown across the room. That I can't seem to read a story if he covers up the page or turns the page too quickly? Well I am a jerk and the only answer is to throw the book across the room. That something falls on the ground and has to be picked up? It causes the sort of anguish normally associated with the trail of tears. That I had him take a nap? Well I am just the biggest asshole in Asshholetown. (population: fuckyouverymuch)

If I have to read one more Richard Scarry book or draw one more picture of Humpty-Dumpty I may throw something.

He has spent a lot of time in time-out today. He knows time-out better than the Kalahari Bushman know their homeland.

[identity profile] la-sherazade.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder if Priority Mail makes a box that is big enough...?

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hah.
A two year old would totally put you off ever having children.
You get them helpless and adorable and stuff so that you love them and expend all that energy so when they are being poops -you keep them.

[identity profile] la-sherazade.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's that by then you have put so much time and money and effort into them, it's too late to give them up for adoption!
I guess this is the Terrible Twos we all hear so much about. Hang in there!

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yep.
The warranty runs out pretty quickly.
He is really good for the most part and I feel lucky. But sometimes he likes to remind me of his age.

[identity profile] la-sherazade.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
p.s. I sent you a message from Twitter...

[identity profile] pink-aster.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Cat o' nine tails. I'm just sayin'.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hee.
You know!

[identity profile] nc-bookworm.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Toddler version of PMS?

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of.

[identity profile] cutebutpsycho99.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
My favorite quote is from a friend of writer Anne Lamott's about her child. "She figures that she gave birth to him, so if she kills him it's pretty much a wash."

Today sounds like one of those days. I recommend cocktails.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
Yep.
That is the truth.

[identity profile] jess-faraday.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
Second the vote for cocktails. Strong ones. And one or two for yourself.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
Hee.

[identity profile] cutebutpsycho99.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Whoops! Forgot you're pregnant with the Biscuit. Forget the cocktails. Footrubs and chocolates?

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
a nap would work.

[identity profile] emily-swank.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Some day you'll yearn for Lowly Worm and his little apple car.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
For now, Goldbug can go to hell.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
I have to get my kicks somehow.

[identity profile] scream4noreason.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
Does "Wait til your father gets home!" still work?

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hee.
Kind of hard to do considering that Mr. Jenner works downstairs.

[identity profile] juliamac.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Mmmhmmm. Two sucked. And then he turned three. Three is kicking my ass.

But they are so much fun when they aren't being asses. Just keep remembering that.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
Those willful personalities make it interesting.
Most of the time Senor Onion is a real treat and I love being with him. We have fun together. And we did today when I wasn't having to be mean Mummy.

[identity profile] keirf.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 06:58 am (UTC)(link)
There's only one thing worse than the terrible twos. And that's the terrible threes. Like the terrible twos but much more articulate - "I don't like you daddy. I want you to go away and I want you to never come back and I want mummy to live with me and Santa Claus. And the cats."

Although I've been told the terrible teens are also pretty bad.

[identity profile] freudian-slip.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
heh, i can vouch for that one.

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose I could always reply with a heart, "fuck off kid."

[identity profile] mockduck.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 11:19 am (UTC)(link)
I suggest we start up an LJ kid-swapping service where we send our progeny to live with another set of parents just for a while.

Hmm, although Item might enjoy Finland just a little bit too much to come home..

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hee.
That would make things difficult. "Forget you Mom!"

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
My Mom had a teenager and a two year old in the house at the same time. She said the two year old was more difficult.

[identity profile] lightprincess89.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I suddenly get the Christmas Story reference in your subject line. hah!

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I figured someone would get it.

[identity profile] clockworkrat.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! I can't wait!

[identity profile] gfrancie.livejournal.com 2009-02-26 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
The thing is by then you will be soooooooooooooo attached to your kid, that you know in good faith that you won't sell her. Because of all the work you put in.