Mostly Sucking

that's right, i said it. 2 kids is hard. i knew it wasn't going to just be all sunshine and lollipops but i wasn't prepared for the level of difficulty this week as things had been going swimmingly. i should have known when the howie thing happened that the past week was unfolding in a mess. in a nutshell, Q has been a mess because she needs more attention from me and H has been teething. one can be solved by baby tylenol, the other is a bit more complex. poor Q, she is just beside herself hurting watching her mumma's attention turn to the baby and her behaviour is showing it. on friday afternoon A put her down for her nap without her soother as we are trying to wean her from it (an idea which we've now tossed and are using every tool in the book to get through this rough patch). so she kept talking, crying and getting out of bed, the 3 no no's of naptime so i kept shutting the door and trying to keep my cool. it basically ended up with me yelling my face off and her freaking out and then jamming her fingers down her throat and me running in to her screaming and covered in her own vomit. 3 MORE loads of laundry and another kid to bathe thankyouverymuch. what a disaster. she didn't nap needless to say and i got to change the bedding and cry my head off until A got home from a work trip to costco. what kind of mother am i if the only way i can give my kid attention is if she is covered in her own vomit?? gawd. after 2 hours of fighting naptime in her room we let her out with the plan of an early bedtime and within 10 minutes of coming downstairs she cut her chin open with a stick, scraped both shins and somehow hit her head on her shoulder (??). not a fun day. the next day was more of the same and we are now coming out of the thick of it (fingers crossed). lord save us all.