Patience.

Leia is drawing our patience thin.
We are completely tired of her and her behavior.
All she does is scream all day long.

For awhile it had gotten better, then it was slowly going downhill again, and now it has hit rock bottom like it has been most of her life.

She just screams all the time, she is angry and aggressive.
We honestly don't know what to do about it.

About 2 weeks ago she started coughing and it slowly kept getting worse. On Tuesday they called me after a couple hours of daycare to come and pick her up, because she was just coughing all the time and I don't think they wanted to deal with it. So we kept her home last week and told them she'll come back after she stops coughing. Fredrik called the BVC and the nurse called Leia's pediatrician and he gave her a prescription for some cough medicine. It has gotten a little better, and the cough is much looser, which doesn't really mean anything - because we want to know why she has the cough in the first place.

So she is coughing and gagging .. and screaming.
She is sleeping a lot.. But last night she didn't sleep at all, she tried - but kept waking up every 10-30 minutes standing in her bed screaming like crazy.

She won't eat anything. She acts hungry, and she is hungry - because she tries like mad to climb into her high chair (barnstol), but she won't eat anything. The "good days" are the days I can get her to drink.

She has had one tooth poke through the top, and the other 3 front ones are looking like they are trying to come in as well. Which makes her angry and all that. But she is just SO excessive. And I don't get a break from it at all, and Fredrik gets a bit of a break at work. But we are so tired of it. She is NEVER happy. She just walks around screaming.

She'll hand me something and I don't know what she wants me to do with it, so I'll just do different things with it. She starts screaming because I'm not doing the right thing and then she grabs it from me and then throws it at me very hard. She is incredibly aggressive with us and very violent. Sometimes what she throws is books, and it can really hurt. :/

Most of the time she is laying on the floor screaming non-stop. On Friday she screamed from when she woke up in the morning until her nap (4 hours straight).

We try to ignore her, seeing as we can never satisfy her.
But it is getting past the point of being over stressful for us.
It is giving me horrible headaches and making me on edge.

We don't mind her having a bad day or whatnot, as everyone does. And of course she can't express herself -- but we can't deal with her any more. Anything we offer her or give her she takes it and throws it at us.

Even though we have beautiful weather, we have to keep the doors shut, so as to not let everyone hear how loudly she is screaming. We are secretly hoping someone will call Social Services, so maybe Fredrik and I can get a break, and she can scream in someone else's face for awhile. (I have a feeling they would return her very quickly.)

We get very jealous of other parents. Their children sitting still or happily playing .. and then we can't go anywhere because Leia screams no matter what happens. She won't play with her toys or look at her books. She either stands and screams or lays on the floor and screams.

Forget about my Spring Cleaning task - I can't even keep up with the normal housework when she is home from daycare. Now she is home from daycare and I can't keep up with anything.

She is a horror.