E is always so excited to go to L's preschool. It doesn't matter if we're dropping off L, picking her up, or anything else - she loves going there. She likes to sit on the little benches outside that are "her" size, play in the classroom for a few minutes, and see all of L's classmates. The other parents always remark how happy and upbeat E is. It takes zero effort to convince her to come along to preschool.
It was raining today when it was time to go pick up L from preschool. Luckily, I keep the two child-sized umbrellas in the car for the (rare) times when it rains. E was elated to have the umbrella. At first, she wanted to walk around with it by her feet. Once I showed her how to hold it up above her head, she was tickled pink walking around in the rain and being dry.
The problem began when we got to L's classroom. I took E's umbrella from her, folded it up, and said "okay, we'll use it again when we go back out in the rain." Apparently, it is not cool to take an umbrella away from a child, even if it's not raining at that location. E started screaming, crying, and pulling on my shirt/pants to get back the umbrella. The other parents were shocked - why was she so upset?!? Even in the classroom, she kept crying and trying to get the umbrella back. Clearly, it is NOT raining in the classroom! Finally, E saw the sand table and started playing with that, but then she and L started fighting over the tools to use in the sand table. Argh! When I finally got them both wrangled and outside, I gave E her umbrella back. She promptly tripped and fell over it (of course she put it back down by her feet), and started crying again. *sigh* I ended up carrying her back to the car with her holding the umbrella over the two of us while L used her umbrella alone.
Why, of all things, does an umbrella cause a temper tantrum?!?!?? Freaking KID!!!!!!!
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