Well we were put in our places on Saturday! Since Tillman is officially a toddler we are trying to let him explore the world and use those legs and brain cells. This means a little more work and patience on our end but I know in order for him to be inquisitive and to learn he needs to explore!
Well we went into ToysRUs Express on Saturday and walked around getting Christmas ideas. He wanted to get out of the stroller so we let him. He found this walking poppy thing which we all had when we were little. When you push it the bottom pops so the balls make a noise. Well he was so darn cute walking around the store.
The story takes a one eighty...I should have known. Not sure where my brain was, but when we began to make moves to leave we had to take the popper away from him. The boy lost it...I mean all out lost it. He was throwing his arms, arching his back, kicking his feet all the while screaming bloody murder. We held our ground, we walked out of the store and kept walking. Thirty second felt like a year! I was clenching my teeth telling him he needed to stop screaming. If only he was a little older...his butt would have been torn up! ;) Well then as new parents we hit a fork in the road. We either could go back and get the stupid toy or hold our ground! As an fork in the road there is a not so easy answer and an answer you know is wrong but is way easy!!!
Our answer was.....
yup we gave in and bought the toy....but that wasn't the lesson. The lesson was when we bought the stupid toy and he got the toy he still continued to scream bloody murder! So we decided in the car to hold the toy till Christmas! That made us feel better about buying the stupid toy!
and because of this face he got the toy back!
So the moral of the story is....don't give in to a crying baby..NO MATTER WHAT!
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