Zombie Sexuality

If you're my friend on facebook then you probably already know that I've been ridiculously tired the past week or so. As the title of this post suggests, I've felt like a complete zombie even after sleeping a good nights sleep. It's like I don't sleep while I'm asleep which would go along well with the action packed dreams I've been having. The worse part about all of this is that it completely kills my patience. On an average day I have a pretty high level of patience and can deal with the screaming, banging, and question assaults. On exhausted days I can deal with one tantrum, half a banging, and only repeating a question once. I really try to distract the situation with offers of a book or something else that's fun but there are times when that doesn't work so we've had a lot of time outs this week. Daddy's been frustrated as well with Violet this week because she won't let him do anything. She wants him with her 24/7 and won't stop calling for him as long as he's home (and sometimes when he's not). Violet loves me, but I'm the one that gives time outs so she sees Daddy as the fun parent. He also gives her what she wants much faster than I do (if I do at all) So I think she also feels like he's the one to go to get her way. Although it's actually very difficult to give Violet what she wants because she never seems to know. I'll ask what she wants for a snack and she'll say "goldfish" so I go and get her a bowl of goldfish and like partway through pouring I hear her screaming "NO I DON'T WANT GOLDFISH" so then we go through a list of snacks and she doesn't want any of them. Then she'll want the snack we ran out of three days ago and finally settle of the original request of gold fish.... We repeat this pattern for every single meal. At big meals, however, I won't make her something different but I may add a side of something (like another fruit or vegetable).

On a non related note, I was reading recently that Teen Mom Amber (the one who's facing felony assault charges against her ex-fiance) was dating a couple of guys. What surprised me were some of the comments that people posted about her. There was a comment about her being a whore or a slut like every other comment. A lot of people were calling her a bad mom as well but not because of the assault but because of her dating life. I just don't understand why we're held to a different standard because of our age. If Amber was in her 30s and a single mom, people would praise her for getting herself out there and dating but because she's 20 (like me) and a mom she's some sort of deviant. If I were single and Violet was staying with her dad I would probably date casually. I wouldn't bring them home to Violet but I would date on my own time. I think it's age appropriate to not really be serious about any one guy (obviously not in all cases since I'm with Daddy and a couple of my friends are married) I don't know, I guess it annoys me because I wouldn't want people saying things like about me if I was single and starting to date again. It could be that those people really were just angry because Amber's not being the best mom she can be for a slew of other reasons.

Anyway,
If you can please donate a Knock Knock Joke for Violet in the comments section. If your comment doesn't show up, it's because you didn't type in the security thingy that shows up after you hit post. She really needs some new ones!!!

Knock Knock. Who's there? A Tantrum.

Due to many complicated, unforeseen circumstances and my sheer lack of motivation, I haven't posted in a few days. For those of you who actually read this blog instead of stumbling upon it from where ever it is you do that sort of thing, I apologize.

Lately Violet has been out of control. It's kind of like getting a preview of what to expect when she's a teenager. Every time her daddy and I tell her to do something she tells us no. It can be something big or small or even fun but she still won't do it. We give warnings and time outs in our house (and stickers when she's good) and I have to physically block her way out of the corner until her time is up. Of course, when I do that she thinks it's some kind of game which defeats the purpose of the time out. We're also at the point where we can't really take her to the store anymore because it's a nightmare. I'm fine with Violet walking on her own around the store as long as she either holds one of our hands or at least sticks close. However, Violet likes to dash off as fast as she can into the busiest aisles. When I go to catch her she starts screaming her head off and collapses onto the floor. It drives me nuts.

Sleeping is another big issue right now. After our bitch of a downstairs neighbor threatened to call CPS because Violet was banging on her door at nap time, we started putting her to bed in her play crib. That worked great until we went to Disney where the play crib was just a little too low and Violet learned how to climb out. Now she realizes she can climb out of the one at home and likes to bang on the door again. We've started leaving the door open and putting the gate up (although she climb over that the other day as well). We also turn on the hall light since Violet recently decided she's afraid of the dark, too. She's so nimble when she climbs it's hard to be upset. The way she manuevers, by the time she's on the ground there hasn't been a single sound. It scares you half to death, though, when you're in the other room and suddenly she's behind you giggling. Thanks to all of these extra measures Violet no longer takes a nap usually (because she can see us doing things with the door open) and it takes at least an hour to get her calm enough to go to bed.

On a lighter note, we've been working on our Knock Knock jokes. Violet doesn't really understand them, but she likes to do them. Daddy and I's collective memory of the jokes consists of two and then we recently got one off the Big Bang Theory on CBS. So Daddy and I will do the joke first and then try and get her to do it. She does great with the first part but can't quite get the punch line out. Ex.

Violet: Knock Knock
Mommy: Who's there?
Violet: banana
Mommy: Banana who?
Violet: at door.

She's little bit too literal about the whole thing and will also substitute any fruit for the banana. If you have any Knock Knock jokes that you would like to submit, feel free to do so in the comments section :).