What a nightmare!!!

I have officially had a horrible couple of days. It should actually have been fun but thanks to my son hitting the terrible twos six months early (and overnight), my MIL being generally blah and an overwhelming feeling of sadness that I won`t get to be with my Mum on her birthday yet again this year, I guess I have been feeling out of sorts! Joey has been coughing alot at night as well which doesn`t help as although he seems to sleep just fine, he is keeping me awake as I worry about him. Last night we had our first ever "cry it out" experience. Those of you who have been reading my blog for a long time know that I am not into CIO and I don`t think it is a good idea but last night I was at the end of my tether. If Joey had my boob in his mouth he was sleeping soundly and without complaint but as soon as I moved he started screaming. He hasn`t needed the boob to sleep for a while now and I figure he is just regressing because a)he wasn`t feeling so great b) all of his pointy teeth are coming in at once and it made him feel better and c) my niece nurses quite alot still so he has been watching that and feeling deprived. (even though the boob is still available and on offer but I don`t want to nurse him all the time) I basically lay next to him but wouldn`t nurse him and he kept screaming. Then my MIL came in and was trying to hold him/ pat him and that just made him worse. I told her to leave him alone about ten times and I had to say it VERY sternly before she would listen to me. That woman really needs to learn something about boundaries. He is MY son, I look after him all the time and know him best so it pisses me off when she tries to tell me what I should or shouldn`t be doing with him. In the end I left the room and let him cry himself to sleep and within 5 minutes he was sound asleep. He did wake up a couple of times in the night but I was fine with that, I just didn`t want to be a human pacifier for the night, not least because those pointy teeth hurt!!! ;-) Another MIL rant is that Joey was playing up yesterday and she made some comment about how I needed to be stricter with him. I nearly slapped her because I am pretty firm with Joey and don`t let him get away with much and yet my SIL lets me niece run rings around her and I am the one who gets a comment about needing to be strict!?!?!? WTF!?!?!?! Joey did behave pretty badly yesterday and I was surprised but in part I blame my SIL and niece because he is an intelligent lad and he watches my niece and sees all the stuff she gets up to without reprimand and thinks "hey, why do I have to behave, she doesn`t..." so he follows suit. I think we are going to have words about him being to easily lead by his peers later in life!!! I don`t however blame it entirely on the influence of others, he is heading towards "that" age and now that he knows how to say "no" we are doomed!!! His new words this week also include "go" which he uses frequently when he wants to move away from wherever he is!!! It is kind of cute in some ways though!!! Ok, screaming baby alert. The good news is that I am taking the morning off from motherhood tomorrow and am going to have my hair done. It has been 4 months since anyone did anything to my hair and it is looking like birds could live in it happily!!! I hope my son remembers who the guy looking after him is because he hasn`t seen Daddy in more than a week thanks to his new early bedtime and Daddy`s late nights. ETA that it hasn`t all been doom and gloom this weekend. Thanks to the lovely lady who lives downstairs, we found a great restaurant that her BIL is the manager of and he treated my MIL like a VIP and we got lots of yummy free food. I was really chuffed that he went to so much trouble because I have only met him once but my guess is that my neighbour had told him how stressed out I was by all of this and asked him to look out for me! LOL! My neighbour is such a star and is turning into a firm friend and having good people around helps when I am feeling so crappy about being in Japan and away from the people I love!!