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Saturday, September 22, 2007
getting fat - 07:34 PM
(filed under 'healthy living')
i've been eating way too much crappy food lately, & my body is showing me just how much. i'm getting a bit tubby. it's time to start eating better.
tonight i'm having grated carrot & zucchini lightly fried with just a bit of butter. it's yummy.
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savage spingleness - 06:43 PM
(filed under 'smiley')
i mentioned previously & in the entry about being at byron how some of smiley's behaviour lately has a bit difficult to deal with.
i thought i'd go into more detail so that anyone else out there suffering under the wrath of a four year old knows they're not alone.
smiley is a very determined child & can be quite stubborn. he knows what he wants & when he makes up his mind about something, there's not much chance of convincing him to do it another way, or not to do it, or whatever the case may be.
the phase he's been going through lately, though, has made me reach the point where i'm pretty much ready to sell him, or at least to rent him out for a good week or two.
he's been very, very active & goes through stages where he seems to be unable to sit still for more than three seconds. he's always been one to argue his point, but the constant disagreeing with everything i say has been driving me up the wall. he's also been incredibly uncooperative. he's been rough & hitting out just to see the reaction. he's been noisy & screaming loudly just for the sake of it. he's been doing things that he knows are not allowed & has been really demanding.
it sounds like i'm talking about a teenager, doesn't it? perhaps that's the key. he's been this way for about four or five weeks now & i'm almost certain that it's got to be a normal stage of hormonal rushes. hormones are damn powerful things. i know myself, when i'm feeling grumpy through certain times of the month, that even as i'm being an absolutely horrible, grumpy cow, there's simply nothing that i can do to change it. these extremes of his behaviour have surely got to be due to hormones.
it's even noticeable to people who hardly ever see him, such as sam, our hairdresser. she only sees him for about an hour once every month or two, but the last time we went to her for a hair cut, about two weeks ago, she noticed the marked difference in his mood swings & lack of ability to keep still even from just one month previously. she's known him from birth & knows that usually he's quite an agreeable child. with the amount of jiggling that he did while in the hair dressing chair, she did well to avoid cutting off any bits from his head that we wanted to keep. lol! 
even rudi & audrey have remarked that their three boys, when they were smiley's age, were never as active as smiley's been lately. in fact, he's over at their place tonight with his ten year old cousin, jesse. when he's being 'normal' he gets quite hyper & rough with jesse, so i can't imagine what he's being like now.
the last day or so he's had more quiet periods than he has in the last month, so i hope that whatever this phase is that he's going through will be coming to an end very soon.
i've already been through ideas in my mind to figure out if there are any external reasons why his behaviour has changed, & food & environment really don't seem to be the cause. i'm pretty certain that it's just a normal stage of physical growth that he's going through. i've spoken to some mums online who are members of a couple of yahoo groups to which i belong, & many said they've had similar experiences with their kids.
if the behaviour went on for more than a couple of months, then i might seek outside help, but i'm pretty sure at this stage that it's just one of those phases that they go through.
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