Okay its official....

[ann_of_loxley]

Four and a half is driving me insane!!! lol

At least he always takes these things in half year increments ....so by five things should start to melow out again! lmao

[Sydnee]

LOL!! Three has been horrible for, hopefully four will be better??!!

[mazajo]

My 4.5 yo DS has been more difficult to handle lately then he ever has before. Seriously. It's not that he's BAD, it's just that he... never... stops... talking, singing (loudly- always loudly), jumping up and down, getting into stuff (yesterday he was finding homes for all his 2000 stuffed animals.. boxes or containers... doesn't matter if they had stuff in them, he'd dump them out... tried to make a ladder out of a chair and two laundry baskets to reach the shelf high in my closet to reach more boxes) ARGUING with everything I say (like when I told him the ladder he made was not safe we have to spend 20 minutes debating that fact) *sigh* He is wonderful and smart and creative and articulate, but man, I need a break! lol

[p1gg1e]

Originally Posted by mazajo

My 4.5 yo DS has been more difficult to handle lately then he ever has before. Seriously. It's not that he's BAD, it's just that he... never... stops... talking, singing (loudly- always loudly), jumping up and down, getting into stuff (yesterday he was finding homes for all his 2000 stuffed animals.. boxes or containers... doesn't matter if they had stuff in them, he'd dump them out... tried to make a ladder out of a chair and two laundry baskets to reach the shelf high in my closet to reach more boxes) ARGUING with everything I say (like when I told him the ladder he made was not safe we have to spend 20 minutes debating that fact) *sigh* He is wonderful and smart and creative and articulate, but man, I need a break! lol

Sigh I feel yours LOL I'm going to set up a fund for DD's law degree right now

[staceychev]

I feel you, Ann.

I also found that Lucy started to get really difficult around the third trimester when this "new baby" thing started to really hit home--that, and Mommy was too tired and cranky to be her normal self! Now, we're just dealing with the new baby angst.

[newbymom05]

Definitely! We skated right through the terrible twos and threes, but DS1 is making up for lost time at 4.5.

[mamacatsbaby]

Originally Posted by mazajo

My 4.5 yo DS has been more difficult to handle lately then he ever has before. Seriously. It's not that he's BAD, it's just that he... never... stops... talking, singing (loudly- always loudly), jumping up and down, getting into stuff (yesterday he was finding homes for all his 2000 stuffed animals.. boxes or containers... doesn't matter if they had stuff in them, he'd dump them out... tried to make a ladder out of a chair and two laundry baskets to reach the shelf high in my closet to reach more boxes) ARGUING with everything I say (like when I told him the ladder he made was not safe we have to spend 20 minutes debating that fact) *sigh* He is wonderful and smart and creative and articulate, but man, I need a break! lol

this is us, word for word!

[meemee]

.... nah by 5 1/2 after another spurt things should settle down.

but by 6 it is horrible. for you. as you watch this flowering of an young man you want that 4 1/2 badness back!!!! where did the baby go. you go thru your album esp. age 2 and wonder where they all went.

[LynnS6]

I dunno, 5 wasn't all that much fun at our house. I'm holding out hope for 6.

[waiflywaif]

I think there really is something to the half-year business. Every time I think back to a bump in the behavioral road, it has occurred during the summer, which would be my DD's half-birthday.

[meemee]

Originally Posted by waiflywaif

I think there really is something to the half-year business. Every time I think back to a bump in the behavioral road, it has occurred during the summer, which would be my DD's half-birthday.

in my experience i really have found that to be true. not so much with my kids as much as with kids around me. kids who at 4.25 didnt look ready for K AT ALL, suddenly seem to 'mature' at 4 1/2 and were boom!!! ready for K with their moms sighing a sigh of relief.

[marieangela]

Feeling the same way! My middle child is 4 1/2 and I am at the end of my rope most days. He is LOUD and always talking, gets into everything, ruins things, drags everything in the house out to play whatever game he has decided on and then refuses to put it away, and on and on. He will turn 5 right when Kindergarten starts for him. I hope he can learn to channel his energy before then.