The good times, the bad times, and nowhere in between.

Since my last post I can't say much has changed with the girls' behavior issues. We did go through a round of hand, foot, mouth disease and I think that just made their tantrums worse because they already felt horrible. Luckily they are both finally well again and back to the normal tantrums...which isn't much better. I will say that we do have some good times in between the bad. Yesterday, Seth and I were playing with Emily and Savannah in the kitchen and they kept laying on the floor and pulling up their shirts and saying "daddy tickle belly?". Then Seth would tickle them and we all would laugh and laugh. Emily got tired of the tickling and came over to me and climbed into my lap. She likes to stand on my legs or hip bones and give me hugs. This time she buried her face in my cheek and was shaking her head back and forth--kind of like a little baby nuzzle. It tickled a little so I laughed and then Emily laughed and did it again, and again, and again. It was cute.

We have come across a new challenge to our days with the girls. Yesterday in an effort to get Emily to actually go into her room so we could get her dressed I offered her the opportunity to dress her self. She loved it! However, Seth and I are not loving it because it takes forever for her to put her clothes on. Actually I don't think she has yet to successfully put on any piece of clothing, so when we offer to help her it makes her mad. She'll pull the shirt over her head and then take it off in order to put her arms into the sleeves, then she takes it off and tries for the head again...sometimes the shirt is backwards, upsidedown, inside out...at any rate it never gets completely put on. The pants are the same. After waiting over 15 minutes we end up in a huge struggle with both of them in order to get them dressed--Savannah is more accepting of help right now, but it still makes her mad. Emily, just gets almost rageful (is that a word?). I know being able to dress themselves is a skill they need to learn...but did I attempt it to early and create frustrated, uncooperative little girls? We'll see...