Storm Warning: The Winds of Change Are HERE!

We've been having a tough time with Little Man the past couple of days. It has involved a lot of yelling and time outs and even a couple of spankings, even though I'm not a big fan of those with him. He was so bad at the grocery store the other day that when we came outside and realized it had been storming the whole time we were shopping, Big Brother put his hands on his hips and yelled, "Way to go, Little Man! You made it rain!"

Sure, why not? He had caused everything else to go wrong that day. I thought the lady next to us was going to die laughing.

But things are about to change in his crazy little world. The preschool called while we were out today. School starts Thursday.

I really, really, really thought we had a couple more weeks, but no - we have one more day. One day! So much for working on potty training and trying to get him psyched for school. It leaves us with a lot of work to do, and not a lot of time to do it. When I asked him today if he's excited about going, he informed me that he wasn't. And furthermore, he let me know that he most definitely wasn't going. But a trip to Wal-Mart and one lunchbox featuring the Hulk later (totally appropriate for a kid with rage issues, don't you think? He picked it out, and at least it has Spider Man and Iron Man on it too...), and we're a little step closer to wanting to go.

I can't believe he starts preschool in about 36 hours. Or that his brother will be in Kindergarten in 10 days. It feels a little like we've been preparing for a hurricane like we used to back in Florida when I was a kid, only the storm changed course and it's going to be here sooner than we thought. It's just that same feeling of "it's coming, and there is nothing we can do to stop it".

Oh why do they have to grow up so fast?