The Change...

So, I have decided that something happens around the age of 2. All of the sudden my sweet, loving, calm child turns in to a gremlin. Yes I said a gremlin. Everything is, "No, I'll do it!", "No mommy!", and anything else that starts with no. Now, I don't want my child to be afraid of me, but I do want him to listen and be a little worried about what would happen if he disobeyed. Today when I put him in time out, he laughed, HE LAUGHED!!! AHHHHHH!!!! I don't think I have ever been so frustrated. So I took the time out mat that is in the nice living room, and put it in his dark bedroom and shut the door. The laughing stopped. He cried for 2 minutes then counted to 10 and then said he was sorry, just like we have been trying to teach him. Maybe this will start to work. It is just so sad I have days where I just love being mother to my sweet little boy and I wish that I never had to go to work. THEN...the next day I swear I am going to pull out all my hair and put him in the outside kennel with Paca, and I can't wait to go to work to get a break. Wow, this parenting thing is pretty hard...why am I pregnant again?