Library meltdown

I took Paul to the library yesterday afternoon...he'd never been there before and I thought he would enjoy walking around and looking at the books. We had fun reading a few books and looking out the big windows at the river. In the kids' section there was a red wagon filled with board books that Paul would take books from...we were having a pretty good time! I saw a friend from high school and we chatted. As we were chatting, I noticed the red wagon being pushed across the carpet and the back of a little red head bobbing along. Yep, that's my son pushing the large wagon around the library! He did receive a few smiles from other library patrons as I retrived him AND the wagon.

Then countdown to meltdown...

I wanted to check out a couple of new DVD's because ours are getting a little stale. I found 2 and handed them to Paul to bring to the checkout desk. Major catastrophe when I took the DVD's from him to have the women check them out. Of course, I hadn't dug out my card yet so I had to set Paul on the floor and yep, full-on yelling and leg kicking. Wonderful. The lady quickly checked us out and handed them back to Paul...tantrum over.

Now, I'm sure it felt worse to me because it was over pretty quickly but it felt so magnified because we were in the QUIET library and all I could hear were the irritated screams of my little angel. I didn't even see anyone looking to see who was making the racket and even if they were annoyed, who cares! Bring on the trying two's!