Zoe is quickly learning that there are good days and there are bad days. Which is amazing since she really only knows a world that revolves around her. If she wants to play something, she does. If she wants to wear snow boots with her shorts, we let her. The two rough spots of her daily routine including having to brush her teeth, twice a day and take fluoride tablets and not being able to eat chocolate for her meals. I can totally identify with the last one!
Yesterday it was a shock when I asked how her day was and her response was, "not so great."
I'm always interested in her day, but I'm really interested in what makes it "not so great" since neither the topic of toothbrushing or dinner was mentioned. Here's the rundown:
She wanted to play at the grocery store daycare center with her friend A. When they got there, Grandma couldn't check in A because she's not related to A. That was out.
They all went to grandma's house to play, but A wanted to play aliens and Zoe wanted to play fairies. Neither would compromise. Zoe declared that the whole aliens and not fairies had "RUINED HER WHOLE DAY!"
A short while later, A had to go home, which was very sad because they had so much fun playing!
After A went home, grandma promised Zoe that they could go back to the grocery story daycare so Zoe could play for 15 minutes. The daycare doesn't let anyone, except parents drop off the kids. The parents can say that a grandma has permission, but they can't take Zoe unless the mom or dad was there too. Strike two with the daycare!
You combine all these things into one day and BAM - a no good, very bad day for a 5 year old.
We drowned our sorrows in a Barbie movie about some mermaid princess. That seemed to make it all better...until she realized that we had to brush teeth before bed.
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