When you are kidless, you think nothing of spending the weekend bouncing from place to place, scheduling yourself to the max, and generally going going going. When you have kids, this just doesn't work. Even if you have kids that are easygoing (which only describes one of our two), it wears on them. This weekend, we saw that in full force...
On Saturday, we got up bright and early and headed to my grandma's house to celebrate Thanksgiving with all the relatives (18 people in total). We had lots of fun, everyone was playing with, talking to, or holding the girls pretty much all day long. From there, we headed 2 hours away to go to a work party for Michael, and the girls hung out with Michael's mom and brother all evening. Then we got up this morning, went to breakfast, and tried to hit up Whole Foods and Trader Joe's while we were near them. Maya hit a wall. Between being overstimulated all day Saturday, staying up way WAY too late, sleeping away from home (at a hotel where the party was), eating food she doesn't normally eat, getting pretty much everything she asked for and more for the entire day, and not having as much mommy/daddy time as she normally has, she was done. She had a complete meltdown at Whole Foods AND Trader Joe's (we actually left both places without buying anything because it was so bad). She promptly fell asleep in the car after being up for only 3 hours, and took over a 3 hour nap. Then she woke up, ate a huge snack and all of her dinner (which never happens) and is now in bed again.
Michael and I have realized today that it's hard to be frustrated with a 2 year old when you set them up for failure. She acted exactly like we should have expected. It's not that meltdowns are acceptable (and we had this conversation with her after she had calmed down), they aren't. It's just that, at 2, when you're done, you're done. And Maya was done. Hopefully tomorrow is a better day...
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