Wednesday, October 20, 2010

THIS is how we roll...

all around


on the floor


while in the middle of


a serious hissy fit.


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need to see that one more time?


there you go.

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i have been a mama now for over 2003 days.

that's almost 287 weeks... which is

48,072 hours or

2,884,320 minutes or

173,059,200 seconds.

that's a whole lot of mama-ing...

who in the hell said "practice makes perfect?!"



14 comments:

Norbyah said...

how did you get your pictures to be that size? i love it. but not the whole chuck a wobbly bit. not at all. no amount of practise makes that part better.

love you. hang in there.
xo
n

Christine @ 12,450miles said...

Oh, yes. We roll like that here as well. Sigh.

And... WHAT?! I'm not going to be perfect at this someday?!

Elizabeth Frick said...

Oh, buddy... don't you know that won't get you anything you want? :(
I have to say, though, I love his pants. :)

Janet said...

Oh, yes...we see some of this around our home as well. Quite a bit lately...life is really rough when you don't get what you want. I'm glad you captured this. I need to get out my camera for more of THESE types of moments too...to show him later.

Christine said...

Aren't those tantrums fun? And I'm disappointed to hear it doesn't get easier the more you do it. Not that I really thought it would, just wishful thinking. :)

kelly said...

Glad to see we aren't the only one with tantrums and (as you may have noticed) I'm also not afraid to post photographic evidence of said tantrums on my blog either. :)

Sue said...

hmmm...those hissy fits don't happen to start with an abrupt free-fall flop to the ground (regardless of the location - the harder the floor the bigger heart attack for me) do they?!

keep rolling...

Christy said...

I like your question at the end, haven't figured that one out yet. I had a teacher in HS who would say "Perfect practice makes perfect" well, who can ever do things perfectly while practicing?!? Go figure.

Lora Maria said...

when i saw your title i laughed. yesterday, Zeek said, "i'll just sit in the sand, cuz' that's how I roll". :)

and me and the mama's had a talk about this very subject during our little get together yesterday, too. Pam says it doesn't get easier, just different.
I feel like it's gotten easier over time as he can understand better and be reasoned with a little.

and YOU have the tools that changed my mama-ing world in eight little CDs. ;)

Hang in there! at least they're cute.

Krista said...

Ahhhh... the fun of a toddler hissy fit... Alex had one of those on the sidewalk outside of the library for my MIL this week.
Just put on a little limp bizkit and "roll" with R ;)

Pix said...

This totally cracks us up...you are taking photos of your guy having a meltdown! I'm glad you are capturing ALL the moments, not just the Hallmark ones. And happy Mommyversary!

Colleen said...

I love that you photographed this. Noah gets even more ramped up when I take his photo when he's freaking out. :)

Michelle and Stefan said...

R's face looks exactly like Alex's.....eyes closed, cheeks all tense, mouth quivering, I can just see the tears. Does he drool when he gets really angry? Mine does.

Anonymous said...

I love that you caught this hissy fit on camera. I am totally taking out the camera for Adam's next fit!

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