wild child

Camille was in rare form yesterday. Wow! Made me ready to come to work today. I took the girls to the zoo. Camille has not really had to ride in a stroller in awhile and I knew she was not much of a fan but I thought at the zoo we would be all good. So in the parking lot I got us all unloaded and tried to put her in the stroller. The fit started immediately. If I had been trying to leave the zoo with her instead of walking in I would have been worried someone would have stopped me for kidnapping, she was making that big of a fuss. The whole time I was thinking just make it into the zoo and she can walk as much as she wants in there. Well when we got in I got her out and told her she could walk. Nope that was not going to do it either. She wanted me to carry her. No way that was going to happen. My friend Melissa finally thought to let her ride with her son Max and I could push the big girls as they wanted to. That kind of worked but she was still fussy the entire time and we had a few more fits. So much so that she had red marks on her neck from where she was fighting against the stroller straps so much. Ugh. She was tired. So we went home and put her down for a nap. She took a great nap and Av and I had to wake her after 2 hours. She did not like to be woken and threw another fit for 30 minutes. Finally we were able to distract her and that was the end of the grouchiness for the day. She is still wild though. After dinner we went with John to Bass Pro Shop so he could get a few things for his trip coming up. She didn’t want to be in the cart in there (can’t blame her lots to do and see) so Av and I spent a long time following her around. She was everywhere exploring and Av is so good. I can always count on her to be right with us following her crazy sister. Avery thinks Camille is very funny. They laugh a lot together. Anyway, Av had to go potty and I could not find John so off we went. They have bathrooms there where the entire men’s and women’s bathrooms do not have a door on them. So as I was trying to wipe Avery, Camille takes off. Out of the women’s bathroom and right into the men’s bathroom she runs!!!!!!! She thinks it’s very funny to see mommy chasing her. After that I handed her over to John. This morning before school she was in time out twice bc she kept turning off the TV while Av was watching and she broke a glass candle that was on the counter. Who knows how she got it. As soon as I walked into her classroom her teacher said, “wow, she seems to be in a bubbly mood this morning.” Hehehheeh If that’s what they want to call it. They have no idea what they are in for.