Golden Pig Tales

Ezra attended his first ever da vinci days gathering this weekend. As Kalab said, this experience included the Daddies show on Friday night. It also included more music, ice cream, french fries, bouncy walks, mazes, balloons, walking, carrying, running, crying, almost losing a binky, an aborted trip to the wave science research center, bike-sculptures shaped like cats, slugs, tiki bars, and other weird things, a lot of fish art, and several trips to the new Corvallis transit bus that was on display at the entrance to da Vinci days. All this in just 2 days!

I think Ezra’s favorite part was where we sat on this new bus, and I sang many many different verses of “wheels on the bus”

Today I went on YouTube and watched some videos that I got as a result when I googled “toddler tantrum diaper change”, which I did because of the tantrum Ezra had this morning when we were trying to get him out of a dirty diaper and into his new one and the rest of his clothes for the day.  The videos I saw made me feel better-er than the other various posts I read about toddler temper tantrums, because I at least was able to see proof that other toddlers put up crazy flailing-on-the-floor-kicking-the-wall-crying fits for whatever reason a toddler might have for such things, and that some of those toddlers are even crazier tantrum throwers than Ezra. 

Ezra is awesome and I love him more than just about anything. The past few days, however, Ezra has been super mom-clingy and moody. Ever since we went back to daycare after our extended holiday/snowday “staycation”, Ezra has seemed to revert to being a superfan of mom and only mom. He gets upset when dad is the one who walks in his room in the morning. He is upset when I am not the one to soothe him when he takes a tumble. He gives me a scowl and furrowed brow when I say bye bye at playcare in the mornings. He screams and cries when he does not get his way in the realm of toys or food or diaper changing. I am hoping that this is a short-lived phase, but think it could be the start of the terrible twos?