Adam has had a VERY bad week! Monday during his swim lessons he wandered away from the group and wanted to play with a baby and go down the slide. The teachers either weren't paying attention or were just tired of constantly having to tell him to stay with them. I had to keep yelling from the side of the pool, "ADAM! CLASS! Go back to your CLASS!!" Finally, he was like "Oh!!" and went back to the group. He told me he thought that the class was heading over to the slide...but he was in the back of the group so he could see perfectly well where they went.
Tuesday we tried to stay and play after my class at the Community Center but everyone and their mother was there (the weather was pretty cruddy). Adam had a bit of a fit when I told him we had to leave. It was just way too crowded.
Wednesday was Leaping Lollipops day (gymnastics with Ms Sonny). He barely used any of the equipment and just wanted to run and chase kids. That's fine but this class has way too many kids in it and if they are going to run, they have to stay in the empty area away from the equipment. Adam just runs where ever and almost runs into kids. One time he ran into a kid on purpose and while the kid was on the ground crying, Adam jumped on top of him and wrapped his arms around him - looked like a wrestling move to me. I pulled him off and asked what he was doing - he said he was hugging but it really didn't seem like it. Luckily the boy was OK.
Thursday he decided he wanted to crunch up his Goldfish crackers in the portable dvd player. We actually managed to get it working and then Dave decided to try to clean it up a little more and then it stopped working. Dave got frustrated and smashed it on the porch. Needing to get the boy tired out, I took him to the "new park". It was almost time to go and some boys were doing the whole, "Adam come here!" and when Adam went up, they came down. Adam doesn't get that that isn't really nice but it was time to go anyway. He didn't want to go so I had to pick him up and carry him out, kicking and screaming (literally). He needed a drink from the fountain and used the potty and he calmed down. I thought maybe we could do a quick run into Meijer - wrong! He kept wanting to walk by the bakery for cookies but it was dinnertime and he was still in trouble for the dvd player so no cookies. Then he grabbed some ice cream from the freezer and had a fit when I said no. Time to go! Picked him up kicking and screaming all the way out the store. He screamed ALL the way home. I tried to give him a time out on the stairs and he hit me in the face. Not a good day.
Today- Friday. Adam woke up coughing at 7am and was up for good. I let him watch some stories before school and we had a pretty good morning. I went to pick him up and one of the teachers asked if she could talk to me. Ugghh! Apparently one of the girls in his class was playing the piano too loud. Adam told her it was too loud and then put a choke-hold on her! The teacher put him in a time-out and she said he seemed really sad about it and eventually apologized to the girl but still...that's scary!!! She explained to him that if he has a problem with one of the other kids to tell a big person. We tried to drive that in at home today too. The rest of the afternoon was just annoying. A lot of not listening and wanting to do what he wanted to do. Pretty much the theme for this week.
No more TV or comic books for him. He has said many times this week that he is Hulk.
Here's to hoping for a better weekend and a good next week or the Easter bunny is skipping our house.
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