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“Sunshine on my shoulders makes me happy!”
Mommy and Burke
Sunshine in my note book does too 🙂
Burke's Sunshine
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Funny movie. Not great to deal with in real life.
Burke has been having some trouble lately…he’s been lashing out when he gets angry – and poor Maggie has been the one to take the ‘beating’ from him.
Over the past week, the following things have happened:
On the flip side, he’s also gone in to soothe Logan on multiple mornings. And the nanny tells me that he had a paper towel tube that he wanted Maggie to look through at him and she wouldn’t. He was using his words and saying “please, Please, PLEASE, Maggie??” And she still wouldn’t. So he said “I’m very angry!” but didn’t take any action. (This was in between the biting incident and the baseball bat incident.)
There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to when he does or doesn’t take action (sometimes he’s tired, sometimes he’s not. Sometimes he’s had too much sugar, other times he hasn’t). All of these situations have produced varying results.
I try to let him know that the anger he is feeling is absolutely okay, but that the action he is taking is not.
Any ideas out there?
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This week’s theme is Temper, Temper. How much fun could I have with this?? 🙂
Burke 11.6.2008
Logan 3.4.2009 (squirrel induced tantrum)
Maggie 7.5.2009
"I want to throw the ball!"
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The other day, Burke told me he wanted to read his Three Little Pig story. I said, “Okay…be right there.” He grabbed the book and when I got into the room, this is what I saw. (With Maggie tap-dancing in the background…)
(1 minute plus stupid OneTrueMedia wrapper)
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This morning, at 6:45, I heard Logan wake up through the monitor. (He’s not so quiet when he wakes up.) My policy is that I don’t go in to get any of the kids until the clock reads at least 7:00.
As I was pondering whether to go in and try to calm him down or just ignore him for 15 minutes, I heard the Twins’ door open. My immediate thought was, “Oh man. Logan woke Burke up…Burke’s going to come jump into bed with us now.” And waited to hear the door open.
Well…I DID hear a door open, but it wasn’t our’s… it was Logan’s door. And then I heard the following conversation:
Burke: Do you want the light on?
Logan: Nooooo!
Burke: Do you want a blanket?
Logan: Nooooo!
Burke: Do you want another paci?
Logan: Paci!!
And Burke kept talking with him for 10 – 15 minutes. Go Burke 🙂
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This is from our day at the Aquarium. Again, it’s from my cell phone, so the quality isn’t great. (That and I haven’t figured out how to upload my video from my phone to YouTube and not have it stretch out…)
(34 seconds)
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We were in the back yard yesterday when Burke spritzed Logan with the hose. (Still not sure if it was an accident or not…) The rule is if you spray anyone who doesn’t want to be sprayed, the water is turned off. Obviously, this didn’t sit well with Burke and he did his usual “run away crying” thing followed by some screeching.
When I finally caught up to him I asked, “Why are you screeching, Burke?”
His response? “Shake Dance.”
He was screeching because he knew that the last few times he got frustrated and screeched, we broke into the Shake Off The Frustration Dance – and he really liked it. NOW all we have to do is teach him that asking for the dance rather than screeching is the way to go.
How’d we get him to do the Dance, you ask? Simple, really. Fishful Thinking helped!
Have you been following along with Fishful Thinking? Has it been helpful to you?
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We went to the town Memorial Day Parade on Monday and I happened to catch Burke on video enjoying it a bit. (It’s from my phone, sorry about the quality!)
(21 seconds)
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The Zimmer Zoo 