Spirited Baby Cake

Awwwwww........Look at that baby with his big brother. Sweet as pie. Avery to the world, baby cakes to me. This babe was coming at the perfect time. Nathaniel had a sweet job and we had a nice apartment.Cool let's have another kid. Well, life likes to be crazy, no straight lines in this family. What was I thinking, straight line ha!? Right before Christmas 2008 Nathaniel got laid off and that was it. He didn't work again for over a year. It did not really matter that we didn't have a lot of money when our Baby-Cakes came; we were in love. I was so happy after he was born, the tiredness of having a newborn didn't hit me for at least a month.

I should have known that this boy would be trouble from the start. I was more miserable than I ever, during my pregnancy. I was sick for months. I would come home from work and cry, my body hurt so bad. Maybe I felt so much joy after he was born because I didn't feel like shit anymore.

Fast forward 2.5 years in to Avery cake's life and we have struggles all day every day. This was today, yesterday the day before and will be tomorrow:

We wake up damn early every day. After many screams, loud laughs, tons of messes, we make it to lunch after lunch nap. The nap will include Avery getting up about 1,000 times screaming for an hour. Sleep. After Nap more playing, screaming, being very loud. Crazy-ness. Diner then bed. Don't be surprised when I tell you bed time is the same as nap an hour (sometimes 2), screaming and getting up. During all this we try to do art and fun. Between every activity its screaming and crying. Lets not talk about the car seat. Avery most hated enemy.

I think I figured it out. I think I have a spirited child! That's it he is strong-willed and we can't be the same with him as we do with Ellis. We just can't. But the problem is I don't know what to do about all the screaming, fighting, hitting, biting. I was thinking about buying a book called, "Raising Your Spirited Child Rev Ed: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic"
It seems like a good book, Ellis is also pretty sensitive so I bet this would give me some good tip for helping him too! I am liking all the good reviews and the parts of the book I read on-line seem like something we could do. I am going to keep with my research and order the book next week when the funds will allow. I hope this works. Of coarse I want him to grow up and be a emotionally stable person. I also need to be emotionally stable!

Yes, that is permanent marker!