So, As I said more than a couple of times before. In our life routine has a very important space. We function with routine, we live with it, we depend on it.
Today was a classic out of routine duh! moment.
We decided to take Gabby to visit our best friend's smoothie place, that happens to be very close to Gabby's favorite ice cream place.
Mommy's thoughts were simple.. we are having a smoothie, hence..we dont need the ice cream... so we went in.. got a delicious smoothie, and then we were heading to the playground at her school... (another duh!decision).
Why??? why didn't I though about this better???
meltdown happens like this:
we park at her school and happily think weather is fantastic to play outside let's go... Gabby says clearly as day NO and closes the car door... both of us look confused as we know that Gabby loves that playground... I open the door again.. she doesn't even let me take her sit belt off... and says again NO (by the way.. NO is one word we actually have! so yay! but wow!) and closes the door with more energy....
I try to bribe her with a book, a ball and finally an Ipad.... she sees the Ipad and actually gets off the car... but as soon as she notices we are heading to the playground... she runs back to the car.. opens the door and gets in.. pulls her sit belt across her lap and closes the door.. (she still doesn't know how to put her sit belt on.)
and we decided... well guess we are not playing here today... we head home... and she doesn't want to get off the car!!... what's going on???? why???
DUHHHHHH we were around the corner from the ice cream place and we didn't go... we try to take her to the playground at school and it's Saturday... DUH again!!!!
Really??? 2 things out of schedule??? what was I thinking?????
After laughing with out really laugh... and realizing our mistake.... we decided why not going for an early dinner to her favorite burger place.....
Smiles are back and life is good again....
Note to self... don't play with routine... don't tease with the ice cream place .... You can have your smoothie... I can have one too... but Ice cream... We don't play with it....
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