11 Weeks & Tyler's Emotions

11 weeks and 3 days along today.  My goal is to take my first pregnancy photo this weekend.  I’m definitely feeling much better.  I hardly experience any nausea and I am generally feeling more energetic.  I still seem to hit a wave of tiredness every afternoon around 2 or 3 pm, though.
 
On Monday, I had my “12-week” check-up a week early.  Mike came with me and we heard the baby’s heartbeat (166 bpm!) and talked with my doctor about having a VBAC, and the possible risks.  She thinks I’m a good candidate for a VBAC, unless the baby is in a breech position (or some other complication that would prevent a smooth labor and delivery).  I was very happy to hear that, and am hoping and praying that this pregnancy goes to full term, that nothing weird or strange happens at the end, and I am finally able to experience natural labor and delivery, even though it will be fully monitored in a hospital.

Emotional?
We receive weekly written reports about Tyler and Mason from each of their main teachers at daycare.  For the past few months, Tyler’s report usually says that he’s emotional and will have a crying/screaming tantrum about once a day.  The tantrums are worse when he’s tired or hungry (I could have told them that), and he’s usually fine the rest of the day after throws his fit.  They tell me that he’s very emotional, and I guess that’s related to the tantrums.  He does this at home with us at least once a day, as well, and we usually tell him that we don’t like seeing him throw an immature fit (for his age), and to go in his room if he wants to act like that.  Yesterday, when I picked him up from daycare, Tyler had gotten in trouble for throwing a toy at another child.  According to him, he was just trying to throw it to her to give it to her, but I think that he threw it hard and hurt her, unintentionally.  He was put in “red” for that and I had to sign an incident report.  He hasn’t been in “red” for months, it seems, so I don’t think that this was a malicious act, but we still had to punish him by not allowing him to watch TV.  I talked with Tyler that evening about how to act when he feels mad, and that kicking his legs and flailing his arms won’t necessarily make him feel better.  I told him that he could try to talk about what is making him so mad, and we would work on a solution to find what would make him feel better.  So, I am going to try to work on being calmer at home, not yelling so much (which ends up actually KEEPING me calm, too).