For the second time this week, Carson has severely biten Kate. This time he drew blood, and I took her into the pedi. Mark came home from work at 3 PM, and I took Kate alone.
There is a pattern to these attacks.
Kate has something Carson wants. Today, it was a sippy cup — even though I had two sippy cups sitting next to each other (we were playing in the backyard), but apparently she was reaching for the one he had his eye on. If Kate submits and doesn’t fuss or put up a fight over the object, everything is fine. If she does, Carson grabs her face with both of his hands and bites her face or neck. He doesn’t release his bite until I run over and literally thump his cheek.
What made me so mad about today’s incident, is that I heard Kate protesting, and I looked right at Carson and told him, “No bite, Carson!” He made eye contact with me for several seconds. Then he turned his eyes back to Kate and bit her!
An entire sqaure of her cheek is gone now.
The pedi continued to reassure me that all of this is totally normal. This is normal toddler behavior. He also told me to keep up with the Time Outs the way we’ve been doing them, and to try to keep the twins away from each other physically as much as possible (haha…yeah right).
Now we have about $200 of Rx creams and drugs to hopefully minimize the risk of infection and facial scarring.
Before all of this happened, we were having a great day. I was trying to get some photos of the twins outside because today is their 19th month birthday (no luck on any photos together or any good photos for that matter).
I’m exhausted and ready for bed. Perhaps tomorrow I will write their monthly reports, but tonight I just want my bed.
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