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Fisher Price Sweepstakes

For their 75th birthday, Fisher Price is giving away a New York City Thanksgiving vacation and 75 $75 toy shopping sprees. Ends September 30th, 2005 (my 33rd birthday) - only open to parents and guardians to children under the age of 6 - see site for details-rules.

Terrible twos have started

Well, two weeks ago I had a sweet, loving, fun, easy-to-laugh child. Now, I have a sweet, loving, fun, easy-to-laugh and easy-to-scream monster. Seriously, what happened to my sweet little boy? This transformation started at almost exactly 4 months after Joe turned 2. He actually told me (out of the blue, with no provocation) "no water, only juice" while we were walking through a parking lot with no water or juice in sight. He will scream "not mommy!" or "not daddy!" or "not eating time!" or "not here" or "not insert-seemingly-innocent-item-here" with no warning or reason. He takes two hours to fall asleep, and then only does after much headbutting, hitting, kicking, and screaming. He falls apart if you try to help him do anything.

It seems the only advice that other mother's have for me is "two is nothing, wait till he is three, three is much worse." What kind of advice is that?!? Argh. Well, for now we just get through it as best we can. I have taken to driving him around to put him to sleep at naptime again, like I did when he was a baby. I am thinking about putting a gate up at his bedroom door so when he starts hitting, etc at night I can just get up and leave. As for the inevitable screaming fits? I ignore, I bribe, I cajole, I leave. I pray.

Family Vacation to Mexico

Enter to Win a family vacation to Mexico sponsored by the Cincinnati Bell Telephone and the Cincinatti Zoo. Enter online or via text messaging (cool!). Ends on September 5th, 2005. See site for more details.

Sea World, Busch Gardens Park, or Water Country Park Contest

KFC and SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Family Vacation Sweepstakes -- ends July 31st, 2005 .. "Each Grand Prize Winner will receive a trip for the Winner and 3 guests to the Winner's choice of one of these Parks: Busch Gardens Tampa®, Busch Gardens Williamsburg®, SeaWorld Orlando®, SeaWorld San Antonio®, SeaWorld San Diego® or Water Country USA®. Each prize package includes, for the Winner and three (3) guests ... " see site for more details