Peek-a-boo Grandma!

Hunter had hours of fun playing with his cousins in Papa and Grandma's beautifully remodeled basement the other day! He even said "Joe" :) Well, I understand we didn't have very many fans of my computer warping photo booth program, if you only knew how much fun we have had with it, so many laughs and a lot of tears! Well, I thought it was about time to bring you something new and exciting but from now on I will stick with the classics, Hunter at his best. Today something wonderful happened, a fluke, but nonetheless wonderful, Hunter said "thank you" after I gave him his chocolate milk (he has said "thank you" before but never appropriately), and he also signed and said "mom" this had never happened before, always "ma ma". It was such a great day, that is until the screaming began. What can I say about this except.....I hate it! We met Grandma for dinner, Grandpa is in Kentucky and we miss him! so we met Grandma to have a nice dinner at the Olive Garden (much too quiet there for Hunter) he behaved like any normal child made noise, would quiet down, threw his crayons on the floor etc, we're working on it! He began to get fussy at the end, so I took him up front to walk around, except there was no space for this, he threw his first real Temper Tantrum! Oh so embarrassing! Thank goodness a friekishly tall man came in and started talking to him in weird kid tones about "the weird tall man" and he must have done this before because he was my guardian angel! The screaming and crying stopped! That is until the car ride home where I didn't know if I was going to make it or not! This new screaming thing has been progressing for about the last 4 days, he does it if he is happy...he does it if he is mad...he does it and it is horrible! We have tried everything except spanking him.....we may be getting there, nothing else is working...needless to say it was a long ride home. So, I love my little Hunter to death....but the screaming has got to go! Do all kids do this? Is it some stage to prevent you from wanting more children? How do you get it to stop? Oh boy, I am praying it stops soon and that all is well with all of our devoted readers! Love ya!