Walking, Pushing and Tantrums

On Thursday, Brody was walking around his little play table and he wanted his truck. Apparently he thought he was still holding the table because he took a few steps towards the truck sans table. It was awesome!!! He has done this several times since, but I have yet to catch this on camera.

On Friday, Brody sat on Matthew's push Pooh car. I pushed him around the house and he laughed hysterically. Matthew wanted in on this so he pushed me out of the way and took over pushing Brody around. I turned on the video camera just in time to catch Matthew shoving the car and thus, Brody right into the wall. Unfortunately for Brody, Matthew was fascinated by this and jammed Brody and his car into the wall again. Brody did not find this amusing at all and started crying...also on tape. One would think that I would have learned my lesson, but alas that was not the case. I allowed Matthew to push Brody again and there was another unfortunate collision.

Now for the unpleasantness. Matthew has been a monster of late; he's just plain intolerable. He falls on the floor in hysterics over every little thing that doesn't go his way and the tantrums last and last and last. Not a happy home lately. On Friday we went to the hospital to visit Peggy. When we left, even though I warned Matthew of our impending departure, he freaked out. He threw himself onto the floor, several embarassing times, and tried to trip me all the way back to the car. He's lucky there are laws against abandoning children because the thought did cross my mind several times.