Cami Day

We had a "Cami Day" today.  Every day has "Cami moments" and luckily it's not too often we have a day full of them.  I want to write them down and share a few.  Cami is not very careful, she's three and she's stubborn.  These are the things that happen.  It may not sound too bad, but keep in mind, all of this happened between 2 and 6:30 p.m. today.  

--Cami filled up a sippy cup with water (ok) then opened a cupboard door to get the lid out and knocked the cup over onto the kitchen floor (not ok). 

--15 minutes after the cup incident, she wet her pants while standing next to the toilet.  Not fun to clean up, but I understand sometimes the potty comes out too fast. 

--During her bath today she wanted to put some soap on her washcloth and took the lid off instead of just opening the flip top.  She dumped out several tablespoons of soap onto the side of the tub.  This was right after she dumped a bucket of water on the floor by the tub.  Then Cade squirted her with water and she started crying a lot. 

--We ate dinner outside.  She was helping bring some stuff out but ended up playing right by the open door for too long.  Then she flipped out because a bug came in the house.  She slipped and knocked her fork on the ground.  Two minutes later she slipped and knocked the ketchup on the ground and broke the lid.

--We went for a bike ride this afternoon with me pushing Ellie in the stroller.  Cami swerved right in front of Cade and he ran into her, knocking her over.  She was upset (understandable.)  She wouldn't get back on her bike (ok).  Then she kept crying as we walked home.  (not ok).  Then she decided she did not want to walk anymore and continued to scream and sit on the bike path (not ok).  Cade was way ahead of us so I ended up carrying her and pushing the stroller with Ellie and Cami's bike.  She cried the whole way home (really not ok!)  I put her in her room for a while to calm down. 

--Cade and Kirk went for another bike ride after dinner and I was trying to get Cami to help me clean up the family room.  I asked her several times to put a chair away.  She just ignored me and kept playing.  Finally I told her if she didn't help me then she could go to her room.  She said "don't talk to me like that" and started to get something out.  I told her again that she could help me or go to her room.  She said her choice was to play.  I said her choice was to help or go to her room.  She ran up to her room and yelled that she was staying there forever and not coming out.  Next time I saw her, she had taken her clothes off. 

On the flip side, Ellie slept really well today and took a 2 hour, a 1 hour and an almost 2 hour nap and was super happy all day.