At a lost.....

Emma has entered the terrible two's, it is crazy. 

She colors on anything and everything, even though all markers, crayons, and pencils have been taken and put in the closet, on a high shelf.  We have gone over, "We color on paper" more times then I can count.


 She also loves to steal food from the pantry.  The pantry is next to the TV den, and I can not tell you how many time I have walked back there to find her and Will eating crackers or chips.  We are getting a lock this weekend for the door, also getting two for the playroom closets.


Also she is loves to play with the ground coffee.  She has dumped it everywhere, all over her brothers room, the TV den.  I can't lie it does make the room smell good.

Where I am at a lost is I feel like I have, or am about to baby proof the home completely.  Sharpies are up high, yet they still found there way on the stairs and our sheets.  Coffee was in the cabinet, she waited until I went up to put clothes away to take the chair and climb up to take it out.  She waits until I am out of the kitchen to steal food.  


We have done the time out, the taking away toys, snack, activities, I have screamed, I have done nothing but make her clean it all up.  I am at a lost of how to handle her.  Her brothers were never like this.  Both Will and Nick were non typical developing two year old.  But they have caught up. 


Will and Emma feed off each other.  They are crazy together, most of the above has been done with Will.  And talking to both of them is like talking to a brick wall.  For Will it is that he does not show the emotion in his face that he understands me, so I have no idea if he really gets it.  Emma is two and impulsive so she may get it when I scold her, but 10 minutes later she forgets.

I don't know how to get all of this to stop.  I am hoping that once the routine of school starts on Tuesday, a lot of it will calm down.  Will is nervous about school, and needs a good routine so he is acting out.  And I think Emma needs that routine too which may explain a lot of the acting out. 

I think in the end it is more, keep sounding like a broken record, lock everything up, and just pray that this phase will pass soon.

Teresa