Well, I could sit here and tell you that we had a
wonderfully blissful family get away over the weekend but that would not be
entirely true. Did we have spurts of fun here and there? Sure! But was it
relaxing or worth the effort...probably not. We started out great -Lane fell
asleep almost immediately and Grant was occupied with his portable DVD player. All
was great until about 30 minutes from our destination. The classic "are we there yet?"
question was asked about 1,000 times and the "I'm hungry" comments
were starting up too. Then Grant started
to have a complete melt down! I am talking -COMPLETE- crazy cry like he was
freaking on FIRE or something. When I finally got him calm enough to ask him
what was going on he explained to me that he had an itch on his bum bum that he
couldn't scratch.
It went like this:
Me: "what on earth is wrong? why are you freakin out?"
Grant: "I have an itch!"
Me: "itch it then!"
Grant: "I can't it's on my bum bum and I am sitting on
it."
Me: "well, try to lean forward and scratch it"
Grant: (long screeching scream) "I CAN'T"
So yep, I wanted the insanity to stop so I crawled my fat
butt back in the back of our compact car and scratched my son's ass! So
needless to say the start of the trip was off to a really relaxing and
enjoyable time. I felt extremely blessed that Lane was as precious as he
was...he didn't make a peep the entire 2 hour ride. Literally , not a peep. I guess Lane and
Grant had a little role reversal action going on. Grant was acting like a 6
month old and Lane like a four year old. I will add that I understand that it's
a long long ride in a car to St. Louis but good golly miss molly I thought he
was going to lose his brains!
After the enjoyable car ride...we then went to Shaw Park which was a very nice
park however it was 99 degrees outside and blasting hot. They did have a water spray section which
Grant thoroughly enjoyed. Until we got back in the car and we heard him scream
like a mad man again. He was now screaming, "THIS DOESN'T FEEL GOOD! I AM
ALL WET!" So in the Galleria Mall parking lot I made him drop his drawers
and get a fresh set of clothes on.
We
did enjoy some fun times in the hotel -jumping on the bed, swimming, putting
puzzles together and playing with baby Lane.
Grant loved swimming in the pool and so did Lane. I figured Lane would
HATE his first time in the pool but he just laughed, smiled, and splashed
around. So fun to watch! Lane literally didn't cry the ENTIRE trip...he just
sat there and smiled and watched.
Ok I am going to admit a very poor parenting move on my part right now. I did
something that I am ashamed of (but apparently not ashamed of enough to keep
it off my blog). I caved to Grant's begging for a new toy set. We went into the
Disney Store and he found an Avengers Action Hero Set that he really wanted.
Both Jason and I stayed strong for a good 15 minutes and continued to say
"NO" and explained that he did not deserve a new toy because of his
behavior but Grant is such an great negotiator he said, "I promise I will
be good and if I am not you can take them away from me." UGH! I caved and now I wish I would have made
a better parenting choice but I didn't!
In addition to my own guilt -Jason added another dose of guilt by
calling me a name -a name of someone we have both agreed has the crappiest
parenting skills (obviously I am not going to write her name on here as that would just be WRONG). Boy did that tick me
off.
Even though it was a bad move at the time it worked out brilliantly- it did work...he was
AWESOME on the way home. He played with
his new toys all the way back home....and didn't have issues. And he has been really good since.
In conclusion, we did have some good family time
but I had to fight back my own temper tantrums and tears at times. Next time...I want to go ALONE please!
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