Calm Creux
After a whirlwind day spent in downtown yesterday, we’re loading up the car and heading for the Smokies.
But before I shut this down, I thought I’d post a sweet pic of Creux because he wasn’t really in a whole bunch from yesterday.
The reason for that is because he was in a monsterous mood.
He took his mohawk down, whined and cried and dragged himself through the aquarium (when he wasn’t dashing off), gave new meaning to the word “meltdown” and just generally made the entire family, and the entire Georgia Aquarium, pretty miserable.
When I took this picture, I’d just skipped out on the 4D movie because he couldn’t even stand with us in the line. Charlie seemed to be hitting his “done” point and in order to prevent a tandem father/son tantrum, I thought I’d just make Creux scarce for awhile and to let the others enjoy the movie in peace.
I was a little worried about entertaining him by myself because, due to my somewhat cumbersome physical condition, I have a hard time yanking him up off the ground when he’s lying prone beating on it.
But.
BUT!
I found the gift shop :)
And we played in there for probably half an hour, loving all manner of stuffed things with fins, buying nothing but leaving a trail of disaster in our wake.
He was happy though.
And by the time he’d explored every nook and cranny, the movie was pretty much over.
Crisis averted, tantrums thwarted.
We had lunch right after this and my regular boy returned, not the crazed lunatic that we spent the morning with, which was a nice chance of pace.
You win some, you lose some.
Shrug.
He ain’t so impressed by fish is what I came up with :)
But here he is, in a happier moment gift shopping with Mama (holding what I believe is a Beluga whale…whose exhibit was conveniently closed for our visit–GRRR).
February 8th, 2010 at 3:59 PM
Glad you guys are having fun! I have no service where we are staying but I try and post when we come to town. I hope the next time I get online you guys are by the pool!