I thought up this post at the last minute.  Literally, like a minute ago.  I have been thinking all day about what I would write about for my NaBloPoMo BIG day 2 post and just realized that this one, the one I’m about to write, is going to be my second BIG post.  It’s the perfect day two post.

Earlier this week, a good friend of mine sent me a text.  It read something to the effect of, “Do you still want the pony?“  Well, she sent the text at the perfect moment.  I answered her back with a “Yes, we still want the pony!  Can we come by later and get it?“  I am somewhat fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants and my timing happened to work for her, so we planned on seeing each other in a few hours.

Fast forward to late afternoon and we were getting out of the car at my friend’s house.  The kids run off into the backyard to play, allowing us a little time for some good, adult conversation.  The kids are hanging out, hitting it off and having BIG fun in the backyard.

Then, we all went inside for some snacks and some Wii.  Hailey wanders off and decides to play with J5′s Hot Wheels race track.  She’s been all into “winning” and “losing” lately and loudly yells, “Ha ha, I win, you lose!”  Well, immediately I say, “Hailey, that’s not very nice.  It’s not about winning or losing“.  It’s a good thing I stopped myself there because she wouldn’t have heard anything else that I said anyway.  She started crying.  She was sobbing.  She was so upset that I corrected her.  J5 tried to console her.  She wasn’t budging.  She was sobbing even harder.

Meanwhile, I’ve got the baby on my lap trying to feed her so she doesn’t scream all the way home and my friend is trying to gather snacks for the kids as a means of distracting them from the BIG drama.  Nothing was working.  Hailey was waterworks.  J5 was pretty concerned and doing everything his little mind could possibly think of to calm this little girl down.  I’m trying not to make matters worse by keeping my mouth shut but I do tell her to talk a walk and try to calm herself down.  She and J5 go into the other room and all that we can hear is more sobbing and some yelling and more crying (from both children now).  I’m thinking a fist fight is about to break out in there.

Well, they weren’t fighting.  They were both trying to console each other and just ended up all-out crying it out.

All I could really do was sit and shake my head and laugh.  My friend and I looked at each other, shrugged our shoulders and said, “Is this really what we signed up for?”

I can recall this one other time when we got these two together, that they couldn’t hold back the tears.  I wrote a little nursery rhyme about it. They were both a little shorter back then but just as loud.

We gathered our composure (sort of) and headed home with our adopted pony in the back of the SUV.

In closing, I will tell you that both kids were fine by the time we left and all of the BIG drama was forgotten.  I found the whole thing very amusing and  I haven’t laughed like that in a long time.

Day 2: NaBloPoMo

April = Big