This morning, Julia had a colossal meltdown that, had it been taped and put up on YouTube, would be an excellent argument for abstinence.
The whole ridiculous mess started when I told her that her breakfast included a surprise. She got very excited, literally rubbing her hands together, and then crashed to earth on discovering that the “surprise” was that I had used a cookie cutter to make her toast into the shape of a ghost. Just as Shannon had predicted a few minutes earlier, Julia reacted not by asking for a different piece of toast, but by going ape – screaming, crying, shouting angrily at me, even, finally, throwing her favorite toy across the room, which merited a time out. I felt surprisingly insulted by her screams that “I don’t like this piece of toast!” but on the other hand, I couldn’t resist laughing out loud when she shrieked, “This wasn’t a surprise, it was just a piece of toast!”
(For what it’s worth, Vivi giggled when she found she had her own “ghost toast,” and made hers disappear very quickly.)
4 responses so far ↓
1 Mnmom // Oct 30, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Oh the OCD of preschoolers! It will drive you insane. If I cut their toast straight across instead of diagonal, we had exactly the same reaction.
2 Rob // Oct 31, 2008 at 6:43 am
Yeah, what is it about toast? When my niece was little, she used to go into fits of rage over a broken piece of toast.
On the other hand, I still utter an occasional profanity if I break the yolk of my egg while frying it.
3 admin // Oct 31, 2008 at 6:55 am
I’m hoping this morning’s jack-o’lantern toast goes over better. I think it will: Thursday evening, Julia apologized several times for her outburst and assured me that the reason she’d been so disappointed is that she had expected jack-o’lantern toast, not ghost toast. As the kids say, “Whatevs.”
4 Brendon Etter // Oct 31, 2008 at 12:27 pm
You pathetic shit! What is wrong with you!? Are you not thinking?!
Damn…
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