Even though it is freezing out, I really thought that a bit of fresh air would be good for Paige. She had slept in this morning and I wanted to ensure she had a really good nap this afternoon. I also wanted to test out her winter coat that she detested. I brought the coat out, no problems. Put it on, no problem. Went out on the sidewalk...smiling laughing, seemingly liking the new winter coat. That was my biggest worry.
We got to the other side of the crescent where you can exit to another street that leads to the park. "Ya?" she says, and points to the park..."slide?". I let her continue to walk to the park, and as we get closer I say, "mommy carry you?". "Ya", she says. So, I carry her the rest of the way to the park...all smiles. She goes a few times down the slide, but the temperature is about 1 degree and windy and she has taken off her mitts. Time to go after about 10 minutes.
So, I pick her up to carry her to the path. SCREAMING!!!! Now, I can understand that she would like to stay at the park, so this doesn't alarm me and I carry her further down the path away from the park and put her on the ground. Still screaming, trying to walk back to the park, pulling off hat. So, I have to continue to carry her farther, but this makes her more and more mad to the point where she is jerking her body and screaming, and I can barely carry her. At this point if I put her on the ground she just sits down and waves her arms frantically saying "no". She resists being carried, but really what can I do? I have to pick up a spastic screaming child and carry her home. Then she starts screaming "jacket!!". It is too cold to take off her jacket so I leave it on until we get a little way into our street. At this point I am carrying a jacketless, mittless, hatless, screaming, spastic child down the street along with all of her discarded clothing.
When we got to the house we sat on the floor and I was whispering to her...why are you so crazy? why were you crying? She was just silent, staring at the floor sniffing. Then..."do you not like your mommy?" shakes her head and says no (hey!!!) She grabs her baby from the stairs and proceeds to take off the shirt and hat. "Hat? Shirt?" she says and them to me to put back on the baby. So that was that.....??
I realize the entire thing boils down to extreme tiredness as she passed out when i fed her a naptime bottle. I am never going to the park without a stroller before naptime again!!! Better to go first thing or not at all. My arms and back are killing me from carrying her so far.
4 comments:
HHhhmmm I would say that was a full blown tantrum. She probably wanted to stay at the park and as she got more and more agitated she was waaay too hot, consequently shedding the clothes on the way home. You were so right to just keep on truckin' and get her home. Nip it in the bud, as they say or she will be throwing herself on the floor of the grocery store because she can't have something....pretty funny, unless your the mother.. haha. Love Gramama x0x0x0x
yep.,I agree a full blown temper trantrum. Mom's know these well. Be aware unformtunately they can happen any ole time and any oel place. This is where the extreme embarressment will come in. However if it happens in front of another MOM, we will have nothing but sympathy for you, having been there ourselves......Good Luck and God Speed!!!! Gramma Val
LOl! sorry it WAS funny, but i can imagine how P O'd you must have been!! It was funny because of how you wrote it. But yeah crazy what they'll do when they are tired and crabby. I cannot wait to kiss her! aunty Jen XOXOX
How can this child be so adorable. Just too much for me. Just beautiful!!!!! Auntie Sue
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