Tantrum rate

This weekend, I averaged a tantrum about every twenty minutes.

Some causes:

• not being able to play in the refrigerator
• not crawling over to the refrigerator fast enough when it was opened
• not being able to play in the dishwasher
• not being picked up enough
• not being put down fast enough
• being nebulized
• dropping pans on the floor which resulted in a loud noise
• running out of things to drop on the floor which would result in a loud noise
• running out of things to drop on the floor at all
• pinching my fingers in drawers and cabinets
• not being able to play with light switches as often as I wanted
• being offered milk instead of juice
• being offered juice instead of milk
• having food fed to me instead of doing it myself
• running out of food I wanted to eat
• being offered food after I was done eating
• being in the car
• being taken out of the car and sat on the couch (this one also happens everyday when I get home from daycare)
• shutting the gates on the stairs, only to realize I was on the wrong side
• having the gates shut so I couldn't shut them myself
• shutting the bathroom door, then being stuck in the dark unable to get out
• having the bathroom door shut before I could get in to shut myself in
• making me crawl to another room
• any attempts to make me walk
• not being able to climb over the couch
• being yelled at for playing with the DVDs
• not being allowed to play with Mommy's and Daddy's cellphones while they were talking on them
• being allowed to play with Mommy's and Daddy's cellphones when they were done talking on them
• not being the center of attention
• being the center of attention when I wanted to play by myself.

I think that's most of it. Life would be so much easier if only Mommy and Daddy could read my mind. Being a toddler* is tough!

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* If you go by age, I'm technically a toddler. If you go by my ability to toddle, I'm not, because I still stubbornly refuse to walk.