Jadyn had a VERY long day. Up at 6:30 am, no nap and a lot of sitting didn't help either. On the bus ride back from dinner, Jadyn started screaming/yelling/crying for no real reason other than the fact that she was very, very, very tired. In fact, take out the 10 minute ride from hell and Jadyn behaved beautifully. She was the sweetest little girl and EVERYONE around us noticed.
Sidenote - Jadyn screamed "I love you" to the Disney employee that greeted us at the airport as we walked to our shuttle ride - weird huh? She did it to our waitress tonight too...
Anyways, as Jadyn is causing the whole bus to jam bamboo under their fingernails and pull their hair out, I realized that I am now that parent that I had always looked at and thought "poor guy - can't control his misbehaved kid....sucks to be him." All the while thinking, at the same time of course, "SHUT THAT KID UP!" What a change in perspective. Jade was tired, had a long day, and more importantly, is just a 2 year old. I wanted to stand up and yell "she's just a kid, cut her some slack" to everyone that had the "SHUT THAT KID UP" look on their face, but I didn't because half of them still wouldn't get it.
Andrea was awesome with her. I don't know how she can have a screaming child squirm on her lap for 10 minutes without loosing her cool. She is a great mom (probably a better wife for putting up with me the past 5 years). I, on the other hand, wanted to jump out the window.
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1 comment:
I somehow missed this when you originally posted. I love it.
I once had a flight from Frankfurt, Germany to Chicago that had a child screem for two hours straight. I admit it was rough, but there was actually one a**hole who decided to make a federal case out of it. I was like jeeze dude, we are all in the same boat, nobody particularly likes this, but what do you want them to do, it's just a two year old.
Good thing you married Andrea. I am with you, I am not sure how I am going to take that ;-)
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