Day 9: Headache Forming

I had big plans today for me and Lucy.  We were going to go to see the CritterMan at the Sachse Library. We left the house around 9:30, I think we were both starting to get a little stir crazy.  We went to Aldi, to get Lucy some wipes, and since we were there, I got some dried fruit and two packs of batteries too. After we left Aldi, we wandered across the street to go to Petsmart to look at some animals and take up some time.  Lucy had a good time looking at the birds and guinea pigs.  We knocked on the glass of the cats, but they were pretty boring.  I was hoping to see some kittens, I have kitten fever right now.  I don't know why, but I think it's a real thing.  We left to go the Sachse Library, which we took the long way to waste some more time.  On the way to the library, I handed Lucy the bag of dried fruit hoping that she would eat some of it.  It had dried bananas, raisins, cranberries, pineapple, that sort of stuff.  I think she ate a bite and then I saw her face light up when she realized she could dump the whole bag into her cup holder.  I said, "NOOOOO!" and then "G D'it!", you get it.  I grabbed the bag and some more flew up in the front of the car.  There is now some dried fruit in my backseat and in her carseat, I haven't had a chance to clean it up yet.

We get to the library and it's not open yet, so we sit in the car watching people pile up around the door. They finally let people in around 10:40, so Lucy and I go in and sit down on the hard tile floor.  It hurts the sides of my feet sitting on that floor indian style, but I guess you have to deal with it.  Lucy is doing pretty good of not getting restless.  She is sitting on my lap and we're kind of playing and people watching.  The animal show starts around 11:00 and Lucy is kind of into it.  If we hadn't been sitting there for an extra 20 minutes we might of been fine.  She starts standing up, which is fine, since she isn't taller than me when I'm sitting down.  The problems start when she starts laying out in front of me, kicking other kids on accident.  I pulled her up and then she did it again.  I told her to stop and sit.  She then did it again, and I threaten that we'd go.  This time, she stood up and patted the kids head in front of me, an African-American child, which, I'd be curious to do as well, but I know better.  I took her by the hand and we started walking out.  She realized what was happening and sprawled out on the floor.  I caught the eye of one person and she kind of had a horrified look.  I was thinking, "I'm one of those parents now."  I had to teach her a lesson, to listen to me, right?  Anyways, I'm carrying her out to the car and she is sobbing and then I put her in her carseat and she's stiffening up and trying to get as straight as possible so I can't buckle her in.  She is crying and I"m about to lose it, but I got her buckled in and called Serena.  That calmed me down a bit, but she cried for another 5 minutes or so.  I can only hope that she learned a lesson today and will change the result next time.

The final straw, all of this before nap time, is when I make her a PB & J, which she won't touch.  I also gave her a Capri-Sun, since she seems to like them.  She was playing with the Capri-Sun the whole time and drinking it and pulling the straw out and things like that.  I put my plate into the dishwasher and start it and when I turned around, Lucy was squeezing the Capri-Sun so juice is spraying all over her shirt and the table.  I grabbed it and threw it away.  I then started cleaning up the mess and she thought it'd be a good idea to clean it up with her sandwich.  She's hilarious!  We're going to do her bubble machine this afternoon, hopefully that will go alright and won't end up with her spilling her tub of bubbles everywhere, which she likes to do now!  Kids are fun, huh?