Whew.

So here lately Aiden has been a terror towards me. It makes my job even harder, which is discouraging. He's been screaming at me, hitting, purposely ignoring me, whining at everything I say, and fighting tooth and nail. I'm at my wit's end, and it takes everything I have not to just whoop his behind and send him to his room. But alas, I must teach him, even if it kills me. Yesterday I was at my grandparent's house working on the loom and Aiden was in with them and he was polite, asked for things, and acted like my normal Aiden, it was then that I realized that I shouldn't be taking it so close to heart, or worrying that he was misrepresenting our family in public by acting like that, but that it is "just me." I'm the mom, the disciplinarian, the one he's around the most so of course he's going to act like that. I guess I've just had it easy up til now. Still, I wish those days were back.

However, he did do one amazing thing yesterday after he screamed at my in front of my grandparents as we were leaving..."I'm really sorry for yelling at you." He apologized for his actions without even a talking-to from me! It shows me that I am doing a good job and that he does know his manners, even if he doesn't always use them towards me.

Some other things that have been going on:
We went to the aquarium on Friday, and Aiden found his love of stingrays! He sat by their tank just watching them for about 20 minutes. :) And he even got to feed them and to almost touch them. After leaving there we were headed to our next destination when we got into our first fender bender in this car. That kind of ruined my Friday, but it did make me appreciate my couch even more.

I got another 29 inches done on the loom in 3 1/2 hours! There's only about 29 inches left too!

And the best news of all...as most of you know Mikey and I have been having a rough time here lately, mainly fighting a lot and both of us saying hurtful things. However, we had a breakthrough last weekend and it's been the most wonderful week with each other. We've been kinder to each other, I feel like he is sensitive to my roller coaster emotions, and I've been better towards his needs, and I've been cooking more (even if it doesn't taste very good, I'm trying!). There always needs to be work to be done but I feel like we took a giant leap over this past week.

I'll post pictures as soon as I have the energy to upload them. :)