Terrible Threes?

The weekend passed relatively uneventfully - Dubai shopping trips on both Friday and Saturday (even if we came home with only full stomachs), followed by Julian's first real week at nursery school. I'm loving this one much better than the school where he was last year. They even made cupcakes yesterday! How cool...

As for today, Julian has been a monster. I met my friends for lunch at the mall by our house. He was fine during the first part of the morning, as he was busy scarfing down his food as well. Then, it got ugly. He started playing in the fountain that is in the food court and not only drank some of the water (ew!), but then proceeded to fall into it, soaking the entire left side of his body. This of course, was preceded by the stern talking-to he got from the maintenance personnel for pushing a chair all around the food court after I repeatedly told him to stop. (I know, I should have removed him from the place entirely, but I really wanted to see everyone. Sue the pregnant woman who just wanted some girl time.)

We then had to leave and get him changed instead of just continuing on the errands I had to run in the mall. We came back a few hours later to buy milk, etc. and pay our internet bill. Do you know he ran off away from me TWICE? We're lucky there aren't psychos around every corner waiting to kidnap children because he was an easy target. That's of course not to say that we're completely safe from those sorts of dangers, but the odds are much less.

Needless to say, I won't be taking him out with me anymore. I just can't deal with that nonsense. When he's in one of those disobedient moods, I cannot do anything to stop it. And what does Serge say about it? "He reminds me of me when I was a kid." Thanks for the payback - I was a good kid! Serenity now...