During the day, if things get rough, we take the boys outside. We refer to it as resetting them, and it almost always works. They love being outside. They also love going on adventures in the car. Basically, they love anywhere that's not inside our house.
In the past week, we've discovered that they feel differently about being out at night. Unintentionally, we managed to never take them out after dark until last Wednesday. (We run errands during the day, and since the evenings were especially questionable before the boys started eating solids, if we went out to eat, we went out for lunch.) Since then, they have made many trips in the evening. We went out to dinner with our Thanksgiving guests, and since the brakes on my car went out on the way to work Monday morning (yippee!), they've been picking me up from work each evening while my car is in the shop. And throughout each trip, they have cried. A lot. Especially Michael. By tonight, Leon did much better, but Michael still screamed.
We are not sure what this about. It may just be that things are different, and Michael is not one to embrace change. The only good news is that as soon as he gets home, he instantly stops crying. He's learned to "reset" by being inside our house. I'm thinking that's a good thing.
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