Meltdowns and Coffee

This morning did not go smoothly. The cats brought us another dead mouse. I picked it up and showed it to our youngest son. That was a mistake. I threw the mouse away and he tried to retrieve it. When I prevented that it started a half hour meltdown. He asked for a bath but screamed and kicked me when I tried to get him ready for it. He eventually calmed down but I think it was because he got to play with the dead mouse. At least it was still in the garbage when I looked but it appeared to have been moved. He also eventually got his bath. That drained all the energy out of my wife and me so we were unable to get his older brother ready in time for his day program. All this dysregulation takes rivers of coffee. Things got smoother from that point but what a morning.