A TWO YEAR-OLD’s TANTRAM

Yesterday Niki flew to Phoenix to visit her friend Brittany. She asked me to watch Alexa and Gavin until Sierra could relieve me when she got out of school at 2:30.

    She was hoping to take a plane that left around 9:00 a.m. so I was there at 7:00. As it turned out, she and Judy were up in the middle of the night checking flights (Judy went to Minneapolis at 2:00 yesterday too.) and decided the early flight didn't look good for non-reving so Niki decided on a later flight instead.

Apparently Judy told me at 5:30 a.m. when I took a bathroom break but I didn't hear it. I was way early and bided my time until time to take Alexa to school via McDonalds for breakfast.

Alexa insisted on me taking her into school and making sure her teacher saw me.

I told Mrs. Haws that I would also be the one picking Alexa up after school.

From Learning Dynamics Pre School we drove to the Salt Lake Airport were Niki got out and we said our goodbyes.

Two year-old Gavin who was sitting directly behind me went into a temper tantrum. "I want to go Mama!"

"We've got to go get Alexa from school."

"No Alexa school; go Mama!"

"Do you want to go see Daddy?"

"No Daddy, go Mama!"

Etc.

Finally he went nuts, "No car; want Mama Grrr! Then he started kicking the back of my seat violently.

"No Grandpa, want Mama Grrr! Kick kick kick.

"No Alexa, want Mama, Grrr! Kick kick kick.

"No Daddy, want Mama, Grrr! Kick kick kick.

This repeated over and over and over again. Finally as we were nearing I-15 he calmed down and eventually he fell asleep.

At 11:15 I picked Alexa up from school and we went to the Thanksgiving Point Dinosaur Museum and spent quite a while there.

Alexa insisted on going in the dimly lit "Star Room". Gavin didn't want to but finally let me carry him through.

They looked at the displays and the dinosaurs then they made dams and threw wet sand (Gavin in the throwing case.) then used the brushes to unearth dinosaur bones.

Finally we drove home the slow way so there wouldn't be too long a gap between our arriving there and Sierra's getting there after school.

When we drove up, a lot of neighbor kids were out side playing, riding bikes etc. Sierra asked if she could play too. I said yes and the two of them were back and forth between their house and Avery's and the house on their east.