Fearsome Fours

We have all heard of the terrible 2's.... When we hit about 20 months with Ryan I knew what they were all in trouble. What everyone failed to tell me is that 4 is worse then 2. You start getting into mouthiness and moodiness, defiance and laziness. Don't get me wrong I love Ryan. In his lucid moments (when he isn't a 4 year old mess) he is wonderful and sweet. He is figuring out the world and I can see it's hard.  Hopefully he starts to work it out or I figure out how to deal with him more positively. Maybe I was just inspired to write this because he spent the weekend with Grandma and came back exhausted and completely out of schedule.  As is the deal with most of parenting I suppose we will wait and see if this too shall pass.