D. Family Coffee Break

We're quickly approaching Buggy's 3rd birthday and I am both excited and terrified at thought of having a preschooler.  That's right, a PRESCHOOLER!  Our lives have been turned upside down this year.  Not to our surprise, Bug has continued to develop into an unbelievably witty, funny, routine-based, [most of the time] rational human being.  She is still more cautious than most of the other kids her age, but she's slowly getting the courage to jump more freely and run with less caution.  I think these are both really great things, considering how calculated she is most of the time.   I think in my last post, I addressed the hardship of having such an unbelievably witty child who questions everything and at the time, tested us for the sake of driving us insane (obviously---ha!) and the emotional and mental toll it took (for at least a month or so, anyway).  Well, after I wrote that blog entry, Bug did a complete 180.  All of a sudden, both in a...

I'm not sure where April went.  So...let's do a run-through of it before I go on to May.   Things that occurred in April: We moved back to Burbank! Easter happened. May it is!  As we've gotten closer to 3 years old, people have been warning us that the 3's are actually worse than the 2's.  We already agree, especially since the last year with Bug has actually been quite easy compared to the 18-24 month period.   Her ability to communicate alleviated a ton of the tantrums.  I wish we could say we could foresee the third year of Bug's life to be just as "easy," however, it's looking quite dim.  We've approached and passed the stage where Bug is not only testing her limits, but utilizing [not so nice] words and phrases appropriately.  We didn't expect this stage for another 10 years!   Current phrases that seriously push us over the edge: "You're not my best friend." "Why do you say that to me?" ...