I woke up in Nana and Papa’s bed in a good mood. I had a nice long sleep and felt I caught up on my rest after waking up early yesterday to see the garbage truck. Nana and Papa fed me my fruits for breakfast and let me watch Paw Patrol. They asked if I wanted to go back to the pool and Mommy and Daddy’s hotel and I said no, then yes, then no again. I decided to just wait at home for them to come back.
I played nicely at home all morning and barely even acknowledged Mommy and Daddy when they came home. Maybe I was holding a bit of a grudge. Mommy came to play with me and I showed her my new Lego toy.
One of the things on my check list was to bake cookies with Nana. The older I get, the more I can do to in the cookie making and baking process. I was really good at rolling the dough and cutting the cookie shapes. As for decorating, I did a good job, but I really leaned into the pink decorations.
Just around lunch time I got into a mood again. I was being mean and started to throw a tantrum. I tried to reset by taking a couple of timeouts but they didn’t quite work. I started to be even more mean and started to talk to Mommy very rudely. Daddy took me outside to reset. I said I wanted to go back inside to Mommy and that I would say sorry, but Daddy said he wouldn’t let me be mean to her. I was getting deeper and deeper into my tantrum, yelling and even screaming, unable to get my emotions under control. Daddy listened to me, talked to me, and explained that I couldn’t go back inside until I could be safe and nice. I said I couldn’t. He said I could. He said he believed I was strong enough to control my emotions instead of let them control me. He helped me. He held my hand and told me to squeeze to get rid of all the bad feelings and take a deep breath at the same time. So I squeezed and breathed until slowly I started to feel in control. I started to calm down and started to be able to be more of myself. After a short time I had calmed down and was ready to go back inside. I nicely told Daddy that I was hungry, so he got me some food to eat while I apologized to Mommy. I started to eat and was my good self again. Daddy picked up his and Mommy’s food and I shared what they ate. Then not only was I calm and nice, but happy and smiley again. I guess I was really hungry. Next time when people tell me I should eat, I will listen to avoid these problems.
After lunch Daddy set up the wading pool in the backyard. He didn’t ask me if I wanted to jump in the pool or not, but when I saw what was happening I got changed and sunscreened up and just jumped right in. Daddy brought out my beach toys and we had a ball in tiny little pool. We played with trucks, buckets, and water guns. The trucks talked to each other. We used the buckets to cook things. We shot the water guns into the air to make it rain. We even did target practice. We were in the pool a long time!
At one point I had to go pee. But since I was all wet, going into the house was not an optimal option. Instead, Daddy suggested that I have a “bush wee”, as they call it in one of my favorite shows Bluey, so I gave the plumeria tree a watering.
After a lot of pool play we went in to shower and change. When I was asked what I wanted for dinner I answered beef stew, then beef, then kalbi. Then I played on the iPad for a bit. Nana needed to go shopping but I opted to stay home this time. Mommy and Daddy went to Costco and I just hung out at home with Papa, both of us on our iPads.
I ate a lot of kalbi for dinner, but stopped before I got too full for ice cream. Daddy told me that after ice cream I couldn’t have any more dessert and I agreed. I ate my ice cream cone and then was still hungry. So I had a second dinner of kalbi and rice. After I finished that I played more until bedtime.
When it was time for bedtime everything went smoothly and I was asleep very quickly. Playing in the pool had worn me out.