Enough already!

Well it's been a hard end to the week. Graham and I are both feeling quite frazzled and stressed.
Alex has decided, now he has reached his 2 corrected birthday he is going to show us the real meaning of the terrible twos.
We have had 4 nights in a row of vomiting and we are dreading tonights episode. So on top of the usual daily worry of getting enough food into him we now have the worry of getting him to bed at night without him losing that food and me having to do another load of washing. I can't keep up with the washing! At this time of year our clothes line doesn't get enough sun to dry things like doonas.
Alex is doing it on purpose. He just doesn't want to go to bed. As soon as he realises we are putting him to bed he sticks his tongue out and makes choking noises to try and throw up. If we leave him in his cot he will cry and scream until he does throw up. He also has a whole list of delaying tactics. He wants his teddies, the mobile spun, the button on his monitor switched, the other mobile playing music etc. He points at each and demands, bu, round & round, teda etc.
We don't want to give in and let him stay up or even worse get him up after we have put him to bed but I also can't handle having to strip and wash the bed each night. He is tired and the more tired he is the worse he behaves. If we do give in and get him up he demands the TV on which is just not acceptable!
We have tried all sorts of things from being strong and not giving in to getting him up and being really really boring so he gets no benefit from being up. He has had a series of non routine days. From having us leave him with babysitters Wednesday night to going out Thursday and Friday night and the dentist and his Grandmas early yesterday. So today we did the stay at home, lots of running around in the fresh air and sticking to routine nap times. He has eaten well today and now it just remains to be seen if he will go to bed. Most nights this week he has been up past midnight after we've tried to put him down between 7-9pm.
Going crazy here!
The good news is yesterday Graham and I both had our 6 monthly dentist check up and clean and no work needs doing. Alex got to ride up and down in the dentists chair and feed the fish so he is learning that dentists aren't scary.
Oh and Alex's favourite colour seems to be blue. Just what I'd expect from an Aquarian. He says 'boo' and it's the only colour he names. When I offer him a crayon he will reject all the other colours until he sees the blue one and he will say 'boo' and take it. He also seems to know which of his shirts are blue.

As a photographer I am so lucky to have a child who likes hats. I love photos with hats. Let's hope it lasts. Though by the time he is a teenager I'll probably give anything to get the dirty, grotty hats off his head so I can see his hair.


His Crocs are still way to big for him but when he wears his thick white socks they stay on quite well. When it's a choice of change his socks so he can put some shoes on to go outside or wear his oversized Crocs so we don't have to get another pair of socks dirty, quite often the Crocs win.

Check out the curls!
Yep he needs a hair cut but I love the curls.
This was tonight after I had used a wet flannel to get the thai green chilli chicken out of his hair (yep he rubbed it in). Just a bit of water and his hair goes all springy.