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November 10, 2010
5.10: PMS
Not me. Owen.
All day he's bounced between perfectly happy and the-world-is-out-to-get-me whiney. I didn't know it was possible for two year old BOYS to be hormonal.
I tried food, he took a nap, we went for a walk to watch a bulldozer push dirt.
Sob. Smile! Tantrum. Maniacal giggling.
This isn't a new condition for the kids that live here. Jamie comes home from school happy as a clam and within 10 minutes is chewing my head off like I stole her cookie. Katie will run off to school in the morning, excited for a new day and five minutes later her face crumples and there are silent tears streaming down her cheeks. Sometimes all it takes is a big hug to put her right back on the happy track.
In Owen's case, I assume his mercurial moods are a symptom of being two, but the girls are too young to really be at the mercy of hormones, drugs or teenage pressures. Some swings can be chalked up to transitions or hunger or tiredness, but try as I might, there are some days when I just can't find an excuse for them.
And those are the days that I pray that they're blowing it all out of their systems early, and puberty will be a breeze.
Right?
Posted by me at November 10, 2010 8:49 PM