Happy 2011

My son's New Year's Resolution is apparently to use the word "no" as often as he feels he can work it into a conversation.  His latest tantrum-that-caught-me-off-guard:

 

Because I adore my son and my son adores Elmo, I purchased two packages of Elmo's punch juice boxes.  Silas had one with lunch and one with dinner...and when the dinner juice box was empty, Silas insisted I get him another one, and I gave him his Elmo sippy cup full of milk instead (which is usually like his crack...he loves milk the way I love cake). 

What happened next was 25 minutes of Si crying and telling me "no" and pushing the sippy cup away or throwing it to the ground and generally being disagreeable.  Once my nerves were sufficiently frazzled and I could no longer handle having sippy cups launched at my head, I placed Silas in Michael's lap and went outside until the tantrum was over.  Team work.

We decided that maybe the babysitter's house is a good place for Elmo juice boxes... 

Happy New Year to you all!  May your children be as sweet as mine was at some point this past summer:

 

 

 

My favorite picture from 2010