Having two toddlers in the house is fun! The days are filled with screaming, crying, and laughter, the sounds of toys bouncing and crashing off the floor - all packaged with a nice musical soundtrack provided by Nick, Jr. on TV.

Last week my son wanted to have his cherry Super Tootsie Roll Pop he got at the grocery for desert but he didn't eat his dinner. His sister ate her dinner so she got one, which she proceeded to lick on right in front of him while telling him he didn't eat his dinner (she's only two years old but is in full conversation mode). We told him the same thing and it wasn't want he wanted to hear so he pitched a wall-eyed fit, screaming and crying about wanting his cherry Super Tootsie Roll Pop! Trying to convince a four year-old to calm down and stop fussing about this was near impossible. We told him that throwing a tantrum was just going to get him worked up into a tizzy and that he still wasn't going to get it unless he ate his dinner.

He got himself so worked up that he started to vomit. I thought for certain that hyperventilation would come first but the gulps of air gagged him and out came what little food he had in him at the time. My son hates to throw up. He hates it when his sister gags and throws up and usually runs into the other room. He will need to work on that reaction before he goes to Paramedic School or into training to become a Power Ranger (the two things he wants to be when he grows up).

After gagging on air due to the tizzy he worked himself into, he calmed down and sat at the dinner table with us wearing a sad face while watching his sister lick on her grape Super Tootsie Roll Pop. The next day she started screaming and crying about something. I don't remember why, maybe I put the wrong lid on her sippy cup. My son comes in the room and says, "If you don't stop fussing you will work yourself up into a twisty and throw up."

I had to laugh. If I knew all it would take to get him to stop pitching a fit was to tell him he would vomit if he worked himself up into a twisty I would have done that about two years ago.