Random Screaming

My toddler is in the tantrum stage. And I'm talkin', full blown whiney screaming fits where he flops his entire body on the floor and lays there until someone picks him up.  Or until he gets bored and finds something else to do, which usually takes about 2-3 minutes.  What did this teach me?  To step over him and continue on with what I was doing.  Seriously, if I were to drop everything and go running every single time he started one of these emotional tirades I would spend all day carrying him and trying to figure out what he wanted from the pointed little E.T. finger and random bursts of "UhhhHHHHhhhh!"

I know this, because I learned it the hard way.


My little monkey is 18 months old (drives the fiance crazy when I say that, "he's a year and a half damnit!") and he hasn't figured out yet how to verbalize.  Sure, there's the "ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma ma" when he wants me, or the cute random ones like "pop" and "want" that we don't hear often.  Other than that, its a series of different pitched cries, whines, screams, and babbles.  How am I supposed to know what "um ba da da eeeeeeeeee" means??


Yet another day of feeling clueless :)