In the category of “I’m raising a small version of Eric”
Posted by Carrie on 21 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Familial things
Gabe nearly punched Sam tonight and then angrily insisted he wasn’t leaving the hotel with us…because Sam folded a map incorrectly. Seriously. And Eric, while trying to mediate, murmured that it would have bothered him, too. 
I told Sam that we were living with crazy folk. He just kept saying, completely mystified, “Why does it matter how it’s folded?” But Gabe is Eric, up and down, only with a three-year-old’s inability to cope or self-edit. He likes things done “right,” and he’s very clear about what that one “right” way should be.
But we got out of the hotel and went to play mini-golf, and Sam got frustrated with our coaching tips and declared that he was doing it “his style.” “His style” involves high-sticking, I guess; he cracked Eric in the teeth with his putter on the next stroke. Whoops.
Heading home tomorrow.
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on 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 pm
gwen said …
wow. I thought it would get better, but my oldest is only 6 months older than Gabe. We still have years and years of terrifying vacations - good to know.
on 21 Aug 2008 at 10:21 pm
Carrie said …
Well, there were high notes.
This afternoon just didn’t happen to be one of them. Tomorrow, on the way out, we were thinking of stopping by a railroad-type thing, and I’m anticipating that will go well…but maybe I’m jinxing myself by saying so…
on 22 Aug 2008 at 12:06 pm
Kate said …
You know…
I hate to say this…but in five years of being the girl’s parents, we’ve never had a terrifying vacation. Perhaps we’re of the low-key, laid-back mindset, but she’s always been a fantastic traveler (with no portable DVD in the car!!), and we tend to do some research, get an idea of what we’d like to do, and work it in with moods and naps and whatever. I dunno… maybe we just have a vacation friendly kid?
Then again, we’re about to embark on a six plus newborn lifestyle, so we’ll see how that goes when we have one who wants to go go go and one who wants to sleep and nap. (Not so much the sling ‘em and NIP’em months as much as the curious toddler and impatient older sibling years that follow)…
on 22 Aug 2008 at 12:23 pm
gwen said …
I wish you the best with the railroad thing. That would certainly go over well with our guys. But, who knows, sometimes it seems like they like to hate things just to get me.
on 22 Aug 2008 at 6:28 pm
Carrie said …
Kate, you totally just jinxed yourself.
I did it to us, just mentioning the railroad; the Wisconsin flooding closed the darn thing. 