Motherhood....

....has been so wonderful! I mean I have a beautiful, perfect, angelic little girl! She gives hugs and kisses and loves everyone. She's smart, funny, full of energy and life! Wait a minute...that's the old Ivy.

Apparently my sweet little angelic girl has been abducted by aliens and replaced with a 2 year old that is independent, doesn't want a hug or kiss or to be told anything. She slaps me in the face, terrorized poor Pollack so bad that I think he wants to live inside his doggie carrier and screams "Stop It!" and "No!"

Motherhood....has become quite the challenge lately. And I'm sure all of you know that look I give when I'm ticked off about something...the one called "The Eyes"...yeah Ivy has inherited that and gives it to me and Chris quite frequently. What to do what to do! Geez!

Tonight for example! I run Ivy's bath water and she says "No! Ivy watch rock!" (Fraggle Rock) I finally get her in the tub and she is playing with her cups because they are way more fun than any bath tub toy I could ever buy. I watch her play for a few minutes then I casually get up and walk to the office to turn on the computer so I can check on an item I ordered from Amazon this weekend. All of a sudden I hear snickering and I hear a cup hit the floor. I walked in the bathroom to find that in about 2 minutes (at the most) Ivy has taken both of the cups in the bath tub and proceeded to dump water out on the floor (very quietly). I'm not talking each cup was poured out once, I'm talking each cup was poured out probably 10 times! There is so much water on the floor it has soaked her towel that I had laying on the floor along with both rugs on the floor and is leaking out into the hallway carpet.

What do I do about this I was furious! Not only do I have about a gallon of water to clean up but my socks are soaking wet which made me even more mad! I somehow kept my cool and told her "No, it was not good to dump water all over the floor, water is for the bath tub and cleaning Ivy" She could have cared less, she laughed right in my face and said "It's funny?" Now how in the world am I suppose to keep a straight face?!?!?!!?!?!? I just said "No Ivy it's not funny, it made mommy sad!" I then walked out and asked Chris to come bathe her while I cleaned up the water.

Geez!