Terrible Twos + 6 week growth spurt = Exhausted Parents

It hasn't been a great week in our household and I am pretty much like a walking dead right now. I've had less than 4 hours sleep each 24 hour period for over a week, and even those 4 hours are broken up into 30 minutes to 1 hour chunks... My back is sore, my head aches, and my hip is playing up again...

First of all, our Little Miss finally caught on that new baby means mummy won't be able to pay her as much attention. So, she's become extremely clingy whenever I am downstairs, and sometimes gets very upset when I have to go up to feed Max. She is still very loving to Max when she sees him though, guess she just doesn't want me to leave her. She squeals and screams (in words and sentences) when my parents, especially my dad, are around. My parents raise their voice as well to try to be louder than her to "be heard" by her. LOL/sighs. I kept telling them, kids model our behaviour, screaming matches are just not the answer. It's quite effective most of the time if she screams, I actually whisper by her ear, and she would actually lower her voice. But then, hey, my parents never ever listen to a word I say about how to raise MY children anyways. :( So the screaming matches continue. All the loud noises are giving my migrains and keeps Max awake when he tries to drift off to sleep. :(

Our Little Prince is hitting his 6 week growth spurt and demanding to feed around the clock. Usually it's probably fine to feed every hour or 2, IF the kid eats fast... But Max takes about an hour to hour and half to complete each feed... so eating every hour pretty much means he's ALWAYS on the boob!! It's been like that for 2 days now... I am seriously considering using a sling and just permanently attaching him to my breasts.

Some days I wonder what it'd be like if the 2 kids were spaced further apart. Maybe I would've been able to spend more time and attention on each kid? But then, neither of the kids were planned. Oh we planned... but the kids just had other plans...

Days like these, I just have to keep telling myself "the nights are long but the weeks are short", and "this too shall pass". I am just grateful that I have the kids, and they are healthy...