Braydon and Caleb certainly love their little brother! Caleb is the first to run and get me if Austin starts crying "mommy, baby crying", he is quite the helper. Braydon is very good at helping Austin put his pacifier back in his mouth, covering him with a blanket and more. They love him but that is not to say that they have had an easy time adjusting.
Braydon obviously feels some lack of control because he is trying to control EVERYTHING!! He is telling all of us what to do and is throwing fits (and then going into time out) if we do not do what he says. i am not sure that Caleb is having a hard time adjusting to the new baby, I think his difficulty is with the drastic changes in his playmate and older sibling. I feel like I am walking a fine line between needing to be more patient because I understand this is going to be tough and taking away all privileges and loosing it with all this unacceptable behavior. Most of you are coming around for a visit soon and I appreciate all and any feed back you will have for me on improvements that need to be made.
I literally almost spent $100+ on parenting books through Amazon the other day when I had hit a break point because I was clearly not doing anything right!! Braydon had just yelled "No" to me when I told him to go in time out for hitting his brother. Caleb (who has been refusing to eat his food at the table and insists on carrying a mouth full of half chewed edibles with him at all times) had just spit some sort of red something all over the white carpet and Austin was screaming his head off from just having tortured himself by peeing on a VERY sore diaper rash. I decided loosing it had to wait and I couldn't afford $100 on books so I took a "time out" for myself and sat in the new lawn chair by the pool for 30seconds outside and turned the kids over to Rob as soon as he walked in the door that evening.
Miss you guys...wish us luck.
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