Today was Katie’s first day of preschool! Well, sort of. The parents stayed while the kids got acquainted with the teacher and classroom. The first official day is Thursday with no parents. K seemed to have a really good time. She liked playing with the toys and playing outside and she didn’t ask for her pacifier (sassy) once while we were there. I think the structure will be good for her.
Getting ready for movies on the beach!
This evening we went to movies on the beach. Waiting for the movie to start was rough. We got there way too early and K had way too much time to kill. She wanted to play in the sand, which I expected. I brought her some sand toys and told her she could play off to the side with Mommy or Daddy, or she could sit on the blanket with us and have a snack or read or whatever. She could NOT play in the sand in between the blankets on the beach though, because she tends to fling sand around (like intentionally. Big flings.) and I didn’t want her getting it all over everyone’s blankets.
This was a huge issue. I kept having to pick her up and move her off to the side and every time within a few minutes she would come back and try to play in the sand between the blankets again. And then she would have a giant tantrum and kick and scream when I moved her back. Jason thinks she didn’t understand what I was asking of her. I feel like she did, and just didn’t want to listen. This is such a hard age… They test the boundaries so frequently it’s hard to know when they really just don’t get something. On one hand you don’t want to let them walk all over you, especially when it means all these strangers would end up with sandy blankets, but I also don’t want to be unfair to her. Am I really asking too much? I don’t know. But I was relieved when the movie started.
K realizing the movie was “Secret Life of Pets”
Watching the actual movie made it all worth it. As soon as K realized it was Secret Life of Pets, which is one of her favorite movies, her eyes lit up and she screamed out “PUPPIES!” Why-oh-why did we pack up for an hour, leave 2 hours early to get a good seat, take a gamble on the behavior of a 2 year old and a 6 week old, and stay up several hours past all of our bedtimes? This was why. K was so excited to see some of her favorite characters on the big screen, to dance to the songs played in surround sound, to recite lines to one of her fave movies while playing in the sand. She probably said “Watched ‘Puppies’ on the beach” 30 times on the walk home. And so we spend 5 hours on what should be a 90 minute movie. Now to get some sleep.
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