This week I had the K-2nd grade boys and they. wore. me. out. I have a lot of patience for small children because they're still learning, but these boys I think maybe got hit with the stupid stick... all week long I had to keep putting them in time out for hitting each other and calling each other names and nobody ever seemed to catch the point! GAH! I was at my wits' end. Jacob, the littlest one, had some major anger management issues but by the end of the week I found out a lot of stuff that caused some major "Eureka" moments on Friday night!
Six Flags was the most ridiculous day ever-- we rode a lot of good rides since we had the "ride what you want" kids, but we had The Wonder Twins who whined all day long. The one cried every time we went to get on a ride bigger than the Mine Train; when we went to the Wheelie, she ran around the thing screaming and crying like she was being chased by a serial killer! It was really out of line. Again, with the patience of Job regarding little children, by lunch time I wanted to shake them. I took them to the JCs with us and was like, "Keep them before I do something irrational. Like leave them in Monster Plantation." I did tell a kid I'd leave him at Lost and Found for the day, but he was on the verge of getting himself kicked out of the park (because it's SOOOO hard to keep your hands INSIDE the ride!) and he just kind of eyed me like, "I'm not sure if you're bluffing or not..."
After Richard took The Wonder Twins away, the rest of the afternoon was great. We rode the Batman and Mindbender with no trouble and headed on home. The one good girl in my group was a total CHAMP. Sydney was the BEST. She skipped (for the record, there is awesome video with each of these links) Acraphobia, but rode Batman, Superman, The Wheelie, The Mind Bender, she totally rocked it out and I was super proud of her!
We also went to the pool a couple times this week, and on Friday I ran in to a good friend from high school who has been relegated back to his high school summer job of lifeguard! "You know that story where I got a college degree and then had to move in with my parents and work the same job I did in high school?" he opened with. "Yes," I replied, "I know that story quite well, in fact!"
Today was Susie's wedding and it was beeeeeautiful! I'm so excited about my own wedding. She also has the exact same color palate, so I joked with her that it was a good test run for mine! They had a lovely ceremony, short and sweet to boot, and Susie looked just gorgeous! They had a little cocktail reception for an hour and then a sit down dinner and dancing-- of which we did quite a bit. I'm waiting for everyone to put up pictures on Facebook so that I can compile away. For now, the 70 that I took (and here I was thinking I hadn't taken any pictures!) are up on Flickr since Facebook is being a butt. I do, however, get very sad when I see all these spring weddings, I wanted one so badly...
No pictures from camp this week, I didn't think it wise to bring my camera to Six Flags, but here will be plenty next week from Stone Mountain and the ones of my girls last week at The Aquarium are also game.
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