Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Does this prove I'm crazy?

So today I took the kids to Circus Flora. It's a circus presented in downtown St Louis that is performed by kids from age 7 to 18. I had a little trouble getting down there, but the show was great! Jonathan really liked the trapeze. He and quite a few other kids started to get a little squirmy near the end...well, maybe a lot squirmy towards the middle actually. I handled pretty well though I think. A mom behing me was screeching about her 3 or 4 year old daughter, "She's having a melt-down, she's having a meltdown, this should have been over a long time ago, she's having a meltdown, we have to go!" To me it sounded like mom was having the meltdown! Altogether, Jonathan and Gracie did really well. Particularly Gracie. She watched more of the show than Jonathan did. At the end the introduced the performers and everyone started leaving. This isnt movie credits people! The performers are in front of you! Jonathan and Gracie and I stayed and clapped for them, I told Jonathan that we were telling them, "Good job!" He started yelling that out!
I didnt go crazy at the circus. It was actually when we were almost home. On the ride home Jonathan cried almost the whole way because he said he needed to go potty. Jonathan never goes potty during the day, so I dont know why it was such a big deal today. That wasnt what made me crazy either. It was the stop at McDonald's.
I have come to discover that McDonald's drive-thru's around here tend to suck at lunchtime. I take Jonathan there for lunch sometimes on Wednesdays and everytime without fail they get it messed up. This time I decided to hold up the line of cars and make sure that they got the right food in the bags. To my surprise, they did. I took off and got close to the highway when I realized that they didnt give us a toy! That's the whole reason I went - it was Kund Fu Panda characters! Jonathan had seen the movie and loved it. So, I turned around and went back. The drive thru line was too long so I had to go in, leaving the kids in the car with it running, I locked it (is that illegal?) Anyway, I went in and stepped up to the counter in front of everyone and asked for my toy. The guy gave me one and I left (seriously the kids were alone in the care for like 20 seconds) I got out to the car and looked at that toy - it was a Pirate skeleton!! Yes, I went back in and demanded a Kung Fu Panda toy. I dont want to give my 3-year-old son a skeleton toy! On the way home, Jonathan was saying, "Mommy's mad!" That wasnt so cool, so instead I accomplished a great feat in getting a 3-year-old to proclaim, "Bad McDonalds!"

So am I officially crazy?

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