Yesterday Nicholas was amazing! He was good all day, had his best swim lesson ever, and then won a million bonus points by being angelic at Daddy's choir concert. Even though the concert started an hour after Nicholas' normal bedtime, we decided to give it a shot because he has been expressing both curiosity about what Daddy does at choir and some annoyance at how often Joe is at choir.
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| From 2012 December |
And I'm so glad we went because Nicholas was really fascinated and it made Joe happy to have us there. The part that interested Nicholas the most was watching the conductor, who is quite animated. He paid quite a bit of attention to every song that was in English and it helped a lot that every fourth song was a whole-congregation sing of a Christmas carol and that he spent the first half of the concert counting down the songs until Silent Night. I didn't have to bribe him with fruit snacks until 40 minutes in and didn't have to pull out a coloring book until the last 5 songs--about 50 minutes into the concert and 2 hours past bedtime!
Then this morning he was an absolute delight in church and even started really working at figuring out what was going on and working on the appropriate responses to the formulaic parts.
Most of the afternoon he was fine, a couple mini outbursts but overall very good as we played lots and lots of games with Uncle Matt.
But tonight . . . tonight he totally lost his mind. Bedtime took almost an hour and consisted of fit upon fit upon fit. I know he was exhausted and didn't want to miss out on the fun we were sure to have with Uncle Matt after he went to bed, but that is no excuse for yelling at us like that.
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