We ran some errands in Rockford, made an olbligatory stop at Aunt Candy's Toy Store, she had lunch, then we packed snacks and headed down to Gr to the Children's Museum. Paid the parking, paid the admission tickets, THEN they went to stamp her hand. Micro melt down that escalated into a heavy duty meltdown of epic proportions. Full blown scream fest. She tried to hide in little places to get "alone time", of course those places were also places that many of the hundreds of little kids wanted to play, too. MASSIVE ANGRY MELTDOWN (the kids were "bothering" her -- more like looking at her as if she had six heads). In the end, after about 20 minutes of angriness, tantrum and stamping I gave up and took her back out, to the car and back to Rockford. Moral of the story here - she does fine one on one, but in a crowd of kids she doesn't know like that, look out baby. Especially if she has a hand stamp or wrist bracelet she wasn't expecting. Honestly, once she got started and the embarrassment set it, she just couldn't stop herself. Wow. We ended up sharing a shrimp taco and lemonade (she had eaten lunch, I hadn't) at 2:00 on Plainfield, then the playground at Belmont school, then the Library til 5. She is tired, even said she is ready for a bath and bed (she wants to listen to her new book). I am mentally exhausted.
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