tantrums

I have to wonder about tantrums. No really, I HAVE to wonder about them because I deal with them all day. My little Sara, so sweet, so little, so awful sometimes! And really, I mean that in the nicest way. I was hoping that by turning 3 next month things would get better with her, but it seems they are getting worse. So, off the top of my head, these are some of her favorite reasons to burst into "song"...

• Every time we get in the car, her carseat it too tight. She screams "too tight!!" at the top of her lungs for a good 10 minutes or more. Don't be confused though, she can climb out of the dang thing with it buckled half the time, that's how tight it is...
• When I give her a sippy cup of milk, she has a cow because the sippy cup is too cold. She throws it, freaks out, wails, carries on...all because her sippy cup is too cold.
• I pick out the wrong outfit- weeping and wailing...
• I try to get her dressed, she freaks, but will throw the occasional curve ball and freak out if I DON'T dress her.
• If I'm doing her hair and it's not like she wants it...
• She expects me to be her errand girl and when I refuse...watch out! (sippy cup is an arm's length away from her and she screams at me for a half an hour to come and give it to her...grrr....)
• When she is sitting on the toilet she will either want the bathroom door open or closed- it's anybody's guess which way she will want it when but if you get it wrong- freak out! And you have to realize that she spends half the day on the toilet. Her bladder is the size of a grain of sand.
• wrong underwear- and no, you can never get it right. The underwear she loved the day before will be the hated underwear the next day. You can't win!
• wrong size plate at dinner, wrong cup, bowl or utensils.
• The song that is on in the car is never the one she wants.
• wrong shoes- don't get me started!
• wrong towel, wrong pillowcase, wrong blankie...
• too "big" or too "little" amounts of food.

I know I'm forgetting a few...