{"id":168,"date":"2010-08-17T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T19:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/3-2\/"},"modified":"2018-04-21T17:22:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T17:22:31","slug":"3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone with a toddler knows &#8211; some days, it&#8217;s all about who holds the power.  I am just now sitting down for a break after a forty-five minute struggle with a certain almost 3 year old &#8211; and I&#8217;m pretty certain she thinks <em>she&#8217;s<\/em> the one in charge.  Newsflash, baby girl. <\/p>\n<p>We laugh all the time about Charlie&#8217;s quirkiness &#8211; she and Vann are so much alike &#8211; they are both precise people with a little side of anal-retention, and sometimes this can be really amusing and funny, <em>except<\/em> for when you are trying to get her down for a nap and every five minutes she&#8217;s calling you back in her room for some reason or another.  The problem is that she literally lets out a blood-curdling scream if her <em><strong>blanket<\/strong><\/em> goes askew or I forget to turn the fan on.  We didn&#8217;t bring her special CD to my parent&#8217;s house last weekend and I thought both Charlie <em>and<\/em> Vann were going to have a hissy fit.<\/p>\n<p>I probably would just let her have it out with herself except that I don&#8217;t want her waking up Baby Ella and so I&#8217;m running in there pointing my finger in her face and screaming (in a whisper), &#8220;IF YOU WAKE UP YOUR SISTER, KENGA IS GOING ON A VERY LONG VACATION!&#8221; to which she clings to Kenga for dear life and says, &#8220;No, MY Kenga!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At that point, she is crying and desperately trying to wipe the snot and tears off her face, screaming (literally, I&#8217;m not making this up), &#8220;MY FACE!  MY FACE!  OH, MY FACE!&#8221; as if the snot is acid and the tears are a burning fire.  And so I wipe her face and threaten her with a closed door if she can&#8217;t calm down (to which she dramatically yells back, &#8220;No, OPEN!&#8221;) and head back to the playroom for the peace and quiet I so desperately need. <\/p>\n<p>And so the &#8220;Tortuous Three&#8217;s&#8221; have begun, eh?  Check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/nashville\/the-terrible-twos-were-childs-play-compared-to-the-torturous-threes\/Content?oid=1545980\">this<\/a> article out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone with a toddler knows &#8211; some days, it&#8217;s all about who holds the power. I am just now sitting down for a break after a forty-five minute struggle with a certain almost 3 year old &#8211; and I&#8217;m pretty certain she thinks she&#8217;s the one in charge. Newsflash, baby girl. We laugh all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/almostjuliet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}