Terrible Twos

Wish my 100th post could be about something better, but... ugh.

So recently Nettie is prone to throwing tantrums if she even slightly disagrees with you.  Screaming 'no' and picking up random things just to toss them on the floor again.  Just being a brat, in general.  Today, I sent her to church with Tucker (cause I woke up reeeeeally late), cause she enjoys being in Nursery.  Well, 20 minutes before church is supposed to be over, Tucker comes home with her saying she was kicked out for "being disruptive" and not behaving.  She's turned into that kid that you always tell yourself your child will never be. :( 

Granted, she's only a brat half the time; usually she's an absolute doll.  I'm not sure if this is just a phase for her or not.  It's entirely possible that she's just not getting disciplined properly, which then is all my fault cause Tucker only sees her for maybe two hours a day.

I'm going to try being more earnest with timeouts this week; maybe that will help a bit.  I don't want to resort to spanking cause I don't want her to learn hitting (but I think she's already picked it up from somewhere cause she tried hitting me earlier when she was having a tantrum), but honestly, I was spanked as a kid, and I remember being so afraid of getting spanked again that I wouldn't even dream of doing "bad things" again.  I don't want Nettie to be afraid of me though...

Anyone have any advice?

I've tried explaining to Nettie why she can't do something or whatever the situation may be, but she's so beyond listening during her tantrums that I doubt that works, and that's the sort of thing that people seem to say you're supposed to do.  Do we just stick with timeout?  Do we wait for her to mature a little bit more?

Just ugh...

It's November...

Didn't think November would ever get here, and now here it is!  I think we're pretty ready for the boys to get here.  I can't move comfortably anymore or get up off the floor or crawl around.  It's hard to imagine how I'm going to function through the rest of the month.  I don't have motivation for just about anything anymore (cooking, cleaning, going places), so there's lots of sitting around and Nettie is always super excited when Tucker comes home.

Speaking of Nettie, we seem to be losing naptime.  Even though she still definitely needs it, I can't get her to sleep hardly ever in the afternoons anymore, and I don't have the energy to fight her on it.  Oh well, earlier bedtime I guess.

We've been in our new apartment for a month now, and really like it... or well, I like everything except for the fact that it's two stories.  But I stay downstairs for the most part anyways.  Nettie's potty-trained completely now, and she only likes to go potty upstairs in her bathroom, so that's kind of annoying (cause I still have to help her pull down her undies (doobies, as she calls them for whatever reason)), but it's getting better.

I'm 33 weeks and 4 days today, so only about three weeks left to go before the induction date (they could always come sooner).  It's kind of funny, I thought that the closer I got to my "due date" the less worried I would be, but I seem to be worrying more now that something is going to happen and one of the babies won't make it.  That terrifies me.  More than likely it's pointless worrying, but the support groups I'm in on facebook have a good handful of women that had situations like that.  I know the odds are not high that something will go wrong, but I still worry, and will continue to until both babies are here safe and sound.

I would write more for this update, but I just spent three hours sitting at WIC with a toddler that doesn't like to cooperate for longer than about half and hour and I'm not in a super great mood.  I'll try to get another post up before the boys get here though.