Meltdown Day

On Sunday we had temps in the 60's, so we had a good time in the afternoon getting out and enjoying the warm weather. The snow and ice was melting into rivers and streams flowing down our street. I chopped away the ice from around our driveway so that the river of melting ice could flow past our house and on into the storm drain. Silas loved splashing in the puddles and throwing leaves into the streams to watch them flow down the street. Joel loved throwing big ice chunks into the street, where'd they break up, and eventually melt.

However, this was NOT why I called this post "Meltdown Day". You see, Silas is taking this "terrible two's" thing quite seriously. We've been seeing this face a lot around here:

So this past Sunday, we headed off to New Covenant for church and as soon as Jorie walked in with Silas, he started screaming. He was completely inconsolable. This is very strange for him, as both he and Joel have always been very good about going and playing in church nursery, or at the gym, or preschool, or anywhere really. We've been blessed to have no real struggles with separation anxiety. But Silas had made up his mind, he was not going in there without a fight. Jorie had an idea - let's try putting him in Joel's class. The teachers were OK with this, so we decided to try it, and at first it seemed to work as Silas was happily playing with the 3-year-olds. But as soon as he looked over his shoulder and got the idea that we were leaving it was back to the screaming. So we didn't know what to do. We couldn't leave him in the nursery screaming (even if we'd wanted to, it was clear from the workers' attitude that it was not an option). So we admitted defeat, had to pull Joel out of his class, and headed home. Such a bummer. But Silas has good days, too, and we know this phase of temper tantrums will pass.

Here are some pics of the boys enjoying the nice weather.