Venting

I love Katelyn and Chloe more than anything else in this entire world, BUT right now, I am so frustrated/annoyed/disappointed/upset over the behavior that Katelyn has been displaying the past week, I could seriously pull my hair out. She had me so close to tears this evening over basically, nothing. She is, to put it mildly, a very loud and high spirited child. She loves to bang stuff, stomp, run, sing as loudly as possible, scream just for the fun of it, the list goes on. Tonight, she was making a small toy dinosaur walk on my head as I was nursing Chloe. The dinosaur fell onto Chloe's head and I told her that she needs to keep toys away from Chloe. She reacted by yelling at me so I told her (for the 3rd time today) to go to her room and come out when she's ready to be a good listener. She refused to go and only agreed on going b/c I threatened to send her to bed right that minute.

And that is the story of our day.

I tell (or ask) her to do something, she refuses, I send her to her room, she fights, and around and around we go. I know she's doing it for the attention b/c 90% of my time is spent holding/nursing/changing Chloe. I just don't know what to do about it. Every chance I get, I play with Katelyn or read stories. The only time of day that she's not acting up is when she's watching tv or playing on the computer. I'm so tempted to just let her do those things all day just so I don't have to deal with the other behavior. But the good mom in me won't let it happen. So I'm at a loss and just needed to vent a bit. I'm really looking forward to nice weather and getting out to MOMS club events b/c I think that will help a little.