This was my first day off (non sick day) in a while, and even though Esme got to do a lot of what she had intended to do today, she had anticipated and planned so much herself for the 'day' that nothing satisfied her much, and her attitude was pretty sour, whiney, wanting things but not really wanting them, just the attention from wanting something etc.. so Mom and Dad (who are both slightly under the weather still) didn't want to cooperate in all of the little repetitive type games - so she has went to bed crying at 7:30 and crashed deep for a nap. She may also be coming down with the same cold for second time around.. I hope not. I'm sure some of it is just five years old normalcy, too... but even Mama sometimes has to say I've had enough of it for the day.
She might also just be tired out - which she should be. Early in the morning (around 9 am) we took her out to the park, to a yard sale, and then home again. She ate a big bowl of cereal before we left - and was rearing and roaring ready to go. I played with her a lot on the slides, monkey bars - getting her to run and use her muscles. Then we came home, played in the sand in front of Grandma's house and she went to see Grandma for a few hours, during which I planted six tomato plants Grandma gave us and then had a computer re-install when I meant to be cleaning my sewing table and cutting out a project.
We picked up Grandma and headed for town to a landscaping company's sale - picked up a few things - Stella d'Oro daylillies and lantana camara. Grandma got some very interesting plants, including a mallow and a bee balm. Esme started her whiney fits there - wanting everything her way, seeing what she wanted to see - not walking or waiting nicely, not wanting to look at the plants at all out of disdain for not spending hours looking at the water fountains, bumping into some people and wanting me to ask the waterer to make her puddles where she wanted them (Which I did not.) I found myself asking her in public just to be quiet for a little while. There is irony there.
From there we went to get some ice cream cones to bring home - added on some strawberry syrup for a sundae for her at home - instead of going out for one. More whines...ate her sundae at home and wanted me to play play play geckoes and all the other games she wants to play in order each time for five minutes at a time...as soon as you ask her what the game is she wants to do something else, something else -- daisy-chained short attention span type thing that gets annoying for me. Instead I planted flowers, which she protested greatly the entire time and then came back inside not letting her take off with the shovel for her 'little child statue' game. More whines.
She wanted to play her games on the computer but it was not entirely reinstalled with all the addons yet - so she whined some more.. and then we sent her to her room complaining she was not tired. Ten minutes later she was out like a light. Early day again tomorrow, and no more days off until Wednesday.
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