The Terrible Two

I can't seem to stay away from this number. For this post is BOTH about life with XX after 2 as well as the mischiefs of the TWO boys.

Seriously, at this moment, I'm thinking if God was a little unfair when he 'blessed' some mothers with 2 boys in a row. Because obviously they have got a lot more on their hands than say, compared with mothers with girls only or one boy, one girl. Boys are loud and play noisy games. Guns, swords, remote control cars, X-box....etc. Boys are boisterous, hyperactive, rowdy and not demure.

Well, one boy can still be controlled, but once 2 or more of them gather, it's mayhem! I've seen the way KK plays with his friends. It's just running around, laughing loudly at the same time, tagging each other 'it' and more running around. At the playground, boys who are complete strangers can bond and play together and there're only 2 things they do: 'chasing' and 'running'. At home, when KK is away in school, XX is pretty peace loving. But once KK comes home, they either fight over things or play rowdy activites. I have to constantly shout at them to stop before they hurt themselves or destroy something or I'll be scolding one or the other for hitting/throwing. XX especially, has this habit of throwing things (whatever he's holding or can lay his hands on) when he's angry. Either that or he'll thump you with his fist. He can be really naughty to his brother and is not one who gives in easily.

Ok, so I get to save on clothings and toys for the same sex but on the other hand, boys break more of their toys and dirty their clothes more often than girls. It's true! All the toy cars that are still not broken, none of them have their paintwork intact. Cheap toys don't last more than 2 days in my family. Yesterday, XX just broke the remote control tank when he threw the tank over his head for no reason. The X-box remote control has crashed onto the floor so many times but thank God for carpets. The cuffs on KK's blue uniform is often grey in colour. I have to use concentrated detergent and scrub like crazy to get them off. I'm sure his royal blue pants has got an equal amount of dirt, except that I can't see it. His shoes, I don't even bother washing them.

Here are more reasons why I think mothers with all boys family should form a support group and meet regularly to comfort and tell each other their hard work will be rewarded the day their sons get married.

1) You will never succeed in shopping for clothes for yourself when you bring the boys along. They'll be complaining till you leave the shop or they'll be playing hide and seek inside the racks of clothes. They have no constructive feedback to give when you try on clothes and you've got to watch that they don't accidentally wander into other women's cubicles in the fitting room.

2) You see all the racks of cute, pretty dressess on display and you can't buy any! You walk to the boys section but you don't like everything you see. Decision making for buying boys' clothes are no-brainers. Pants - long or short, black, blue or khaki. Shirt - their favourite cartoon characters on the front can't go wrong.

3) You feel like making a quilt for them and you have a headache thinking about the design. All the pretty floral quilt designs you like are too 'girly' for them and you hate sewing robots appliques.

4) You are the only one in the family doing all the gift wrappings for whatever occasions all year round. Because boys only know how to tear gift wrappers and they don't care how a present looks on the outside!