Well, we've had some whopping tantrums here lately. Yesterday morning we had our first incident of headbutting the floor with intent (not just falling down!) and I tell you, it's horrible! For a week or two now DS has been smacking himself in the head with his hand whenever he was frustrated or I said "No!", but there's very little I can do to prevent that. It's easing off a bit now, but then when I removed him from the heater for the 14th time in a row, he just looked at me, put his hands on the floor and *bang!* smacked his forehead on the floorboards... spin out. Apparently I used to do that when I was a baby. Doesn't make it any easier to deal with tho!
Of course, we were out all day yesterday and he was a complete angel. Flirting with ladies on the bus, playing nicely at playgroup, sleeping in the pram without a fuss, and even playing nicely with my friend's 2-year-old twins. But as soon as we got to the front door of our house the screaming began again. I know this house has bad feng shui, but this is just ridiculous!!
It was DP's turn to camp out in DS's room last night. DS woke up every hour, sometimes every half hour. At 4.30 he brought him in to me to BF him and try and get him to sleep, but it didn't work. He just wrestled and screamed at me for a full hour, dozed for maybe 15 minutes, then was up again and climbing off the bed. blah... He's had half an hour nap today, and has just been fed off to sleep again now, after several shots of Brauer "Calm" and me having to carry him around all morning because he went into convulsive tantrums if I put him down. blah.

The FDC place wasn't as suitable as we had anticipated, and we'll probably give it a miss. Maybe I'm being fussy, but when there's a pile of cigarette butts on the front door step and garbage bags stacked up by the door and in the driveway, it doesn't give a good impression for a place to leave your child. The house was even tinier than ours, and leaving DS in a confined space with other kids is just asking for trouble. And DS was really hesitant about the carer and wouldn't look at her. He's normally so friendly with women, so it wasn't a good sign. Ah well. Have put him down on the centralised waiting list for childcare, but I wont hold my breath. There's four articles about the lack of childcare places in this area in today's newspaper alone!

OK, that's my little rant over. Hope everyone's doing well today!