would you like some cheese with that?

How bad of a mom am I if I feel like pinching my son's head off? I bet every mom has a minute, or hour, or day, or week, when she feels like she's going to snap and just start screaming and never ever stop if her child doesn't Stop. The. Incessant. Whining.

He doesn't have a fever. He's not sick. He's being fed, bathed and played with on a regular basis. But still, he whines. He's been whining pretty much every five minutes since Monday.

If I'm holding him and I put him down, he whines. If I try to dress him, he whines. If I don't feed him fast enough, he whines. When he's tired, he whines. When the wind blows, he whines. When the temperature drops one degree, he whines.

I had a nightmare last night that I was locked in a small room painted all white with no windows and no doors. The only thing in the room was a large speaker strapped to the wall. Issuing forth from this speaker was the sound of Drew whining. And God said, "Thou hath displeased Me greatly and thusly art thou doomed for all eternity."

And I said, "Why God why?"

Up until this week, Charles and I had been occasionally debating whether or not we wanted Drew to be an only child.

Apparently, Drew does not desire brothers or sisters.

On a more positive note, he has started this week learning how to use a spoon all by his big whiny-boy self. Monday night, he spooned up Gerber Broccoli-Cheese and spread it, carefully, on a fragment of Zwieback toast, then shoved the whole thing in his mouth. That's a taste combination that would choke a mule, but apparently the fact that he could feed himself without any help from Mom made up for that.

Last night, he fed himself five spoonfuls of Spaghettios. Then he shampooed with two spoonfuls of it.

Then he whined.

Comments

[ebeth]

maybe he doesn't like spaghettios. like all things, this to will pass. hopefully quickly!

[Mom]

Whining! Ummm!!! Wonder which parent that came from. Like ebeth says this to will pass. He is just going through one of the trillion phases that hd has ahead of him.