Crazy cat

I was reading a post over at girls gone child about one of her twins who they call a wild child. Everything about her was Seb. I never thought anything of his behavior because he's not a 'bad' kid. He's a handful and he will push and push until you're at the edge of a cliff thinking that down is the only way to end the madness but he can be so sweet and sometimes you can't even tell that he's trying to manipulate the situation. I just assumed every toddler was that way? Maybe?

Here are some examples of my crazy.

'Seb, climb out of the car while I get your sister out' 

'No mum I'm driving' as he climbs through the whole car with his dirty shoes, kicking things that should not be kicked, but god forbid if you try and stop him.

'Here Seb put these shoes on'

'Noo, gumboots!' 

'No your feet sweat in gumboots, it's too hot'

'GUUMMMBOOTTSS!!!!!!' 

Picking your battles is key, give the kid his damn gumboots even though it's 30 degrees and he's wearing board shorts. He realllyyy loves his gumboots.

'I get milk'

'No Seb just wait until I've finished feeding Daisy and I'll get you milk' 

Blatant ignorense and milk is all over the kitchen and a drop is in the cup which, in sebs book, means he did well. This also happened with weetbix.

If you ever tell my kid about inside voices, he gets louder and louder it's ridic, when daisy is sleeping he always finds the noisiest toys to play with right outside her door. I put those toys outside in the rain. Mother of the year right here.

Last night we had a tantrum about bed, it hasn't happened in sooo long and this literally came out of no where and was about nothing. Seriously, he could not tell me why he was crying (screaming). It was insane. 

I had a shitty week last week, both kids were trying to kill me I swear, Seb wouldn't eat his dinner and I gave up, I was sick of the battle, I went to the couch and cried, full on ugly crying. Seb came over and put his arm around me, he said don't worry mummy, I help you. But he hadn't been helping, he'd been the opposite of helpful but those sweet words coming from that terrors mouth made me realise that everything would be okay. And it is. He stopped trying to send me to an early grave, he started listening (sometimes), he started sleeping like a normal person again, he stopped waking up his sister and only peed on her once. 

Sometimes he just needs to see his mum loose her mind to put him in his place.