Don't you see your kid is crying, Lady?

Well, since Matt has been home visiting for the past two weeks, Me and the girls have been doing something daily. Which means....No Naps and Crabby kids for me! On Wednesday, Mom took all of us to The Blue Harbor Resort for a day of swimming and fun! We all had a blast. (at least I did) Anyways, Sadie was able to climb up the stairs...sit down on the waterslide...scooch herself forward...and push herself down the slide all by herself. Someone had to catch her, but other than that....she was on her own. I was so amazed that she was able to do that. She spent pretty much the entire day doing just that. We didn't leave the waterpark until almost 9:00 pm. Then we had to stop at Mom's so I could feed Abbie. I had decided to just spend the night. After fighting with Sadie to go to sleep for about a half hour, I decided to drive home. Mind you now, Sadie had about a 10 minute nap all day and was very very over tired. She didn't sleep too well that night and was up early Thursday morning. The plan for Thursday was to go to the zoo. To be perfectly honest...I did not want to go. Dan and I just wanted to have a day at home. The kids took good naps and we left for the zoo. We pretty much had to go because we had to sneak Matt's family in on our zoo pass. It was soooooooooooo crowded. Had the family not been with, Dan and I would have turned around and gone home. So we get into the zoo, and you can hardly walk without bumping into someone....it is 87 degrees out....the lines are long...and there are very few animals out. (or they were sleeping) So anyways, I wasn't having fun and Dan wasn't either. We wanted to see the new lion house, but the line was so long. Well, Sadie decided to turn into the devil at the zoo. She was mad because we wouldn't let her walk by herself. So the point of my story is this. We put Sadie in the stroller, buckled her in and let her cry or should I say scream? Okay now, people were looking at me as if I were such a bad mother. Yes I knew she was crying, I could hear her and so could the rest of the zoo. What else were we to do? Dan tried taking her out but she would just squirm. So, we decided to leave. Come on now, you all know if that were your kid, you would have left too! So the next time you see a kid screaming, please know that the parents are full aware of what is going on with their kid. So Sadie fell asleep as soon as we got in the car to go home and slept till 7:00am this morning. She turned back into an angel all hugs and kisses this morning. She even said please when she asked for her cup this morning. I am making excuses, wait I take that back...I am making an excuse for Sadie's behavior at the zoo. She has gone without a good nap for almost 2 weeks now and we haven't had a full day at home to just relax. So like Sadie, I too am crabby and if as an adult I could have acted the way she had, I would have! We love having Matt and Maria and family home and it will be sad to see the go back to Hawaii, but it will be nice to have my kids back on a schedule next week.