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Good Morning Journal Buddy: We took our grandson Dakota age 4 & his sister Kirsten age 9 camping for the weekend at Yogi Bear. Kirsten is the one that spends the summer with us. Friday night it rained most of the time. Had to stay in the trailer. My niece & her husband had told us about going camping this weekend but did not tell us they were not staying there. They went home Friday night and her son & his family stayed in their trailer. Friends of theirs came out to stay with them. This is my great nephew & his kids, great great. Now, no adults to sit & chat with. Saturday, grandson was a brat to put it mild. Fought about everything and told us he would do what he wanted when he wanted. By 1 pm it was time to dress up like pirates and go for a basket ride with Yogi Bear. Dakota did not want to dress up now. For 2 weeks that was all he talked about and now it is time and he says no. Well, grandma says yes and dressed up he will be. The kids did this and costumes would be judged and results made known at the dance at 8 pm that night. Dakota went to the park with me to play in a blow up castle. After standing in line for an hour he deciced he did not want to play in the castle. Back to the trailer. We had company at the trailer already. I had been away with him and did not get to visit with them. Our sons came with their wife & kids and the kids went to play. Again, Dakota pulled his I'll do what I want routine and things got bad. One of the older grandsons had brought 2 air guns with him. Dakota took one and was shooting at people & cars going by. After a few people commented on it & I told him to stop it, he pointed the gun at me and said, I'll shoot & kill you. I have never heard him talk like this or act up like he was and I did not know how to deal with it. First reaction, slap his butt. It was not hard but surprised him. I told him if he did that again with the gun or talked to me like that again I would call his dad to come and get him and take him home. Oh yah, he says like my dad is going to drive out here to get me. So, I'll call your Mom. Again the same reply. Grandpa heard him and said , I will not call anybody. I will drive you home. He changed his tune then. Things got better for a while and I could sit and chat with our daughtes-in-law. Our youngest grand daughter Leah, wanted to go to the park & play so we did that. She sat on a swing & had me push her and then her monkey toy she had put in a baby swing. This was so nice and enjoyable. At the dance the winners were announced and Dakota got second place. He got a medal with Yogi Bear on it and a certificate. Dakota used to be like Leah when we went to the park. I took care of him for about 1 year and we always had fun and he was never bad or needed to be told to behave. Adults would stop by & wondered why we were watching cartoons and then he would stand up and say hi folks. We could take him anywhere. Such a change in him since he went into day care. This September he starts nursery school half day and the school has a day care for the other half day. If he behaves, the school will keep him all day or if he acts out, he will be taken to the day care he is in now for the other half day. It is right across the street to the school. Sure hope school helps him. Our daughter is so upset with his acting out. She has 3 children and only he is like this. After we got home, they were watching TV and he took a skiping rope with plastic handles and started hitting his sister. She asked him to stop because it hurt but he hit her more. I got to him before grandpa did. Lucky for him but I wished I had known grandpa was on his way to deal with him. That might have been a better thing to have happen. I slapped his butt again only 2x and he told me he wanted his mom. I said me too and she was on her way. He could go home with her and stay there. We were not taking him next weekend. I think his sister was happy. It gives her some time with cousins and no little brother. This really bothers me because I miss the child he was. So many changes to deal with since this annie rupture. We were going to take him next weekend campimg too but not now. Maybe he will learn something when he knows he is not going because of the way he acts. We are going to my nieces house which is about an hour away and it was she who was camping this weekend for the day. They have a lot of property and the family can come and camp or go home & return the next day. Most of them are only 10 - 15 min. away. Her husband has a zip cord thingy set up for the kids to play on. I think that is what they call it. You walk up a spiral staircase about 15 ft. off the ground and it is a slide too and then hang onto this cord on a wheel and ride it to the end which is another 30 ft. or so. By the time you reach the end your feet are on the ground. They have a pond with Canadian geese , ducks and swans. A swimming pool and adult toys inside. Pool table and card tables. I hope Dakota remembers all this because we took him there before and knows what he is missing because of his acting up. When his mom was talking to him about his acting out, he stood there and messed in his pants. Something he has not done for almost a year now. She got so upset and started crying. This made us feel worse and wondered if we should have told her what he was like on the weekend. Decided it was best she knew and maybe they could do something to help him. Take things away from him or something. Oh well, weekend is over, he is home and Kirsten is coming back here tonight. Next weekend should be enjoyable and I do not have to worry about a child. This time I can sit and enjoy the company. We tried but it did not work. We leave for Florida in 4 months and we wanted to spend time with the grandkids but he has made it impossible to spend time with him. I love this little guy so much and just miss him. Could hold him, cuttlle and kiss him before and now nothing. Did the annie do something to me or is it him? Only time will tell. Thanks for listening journal buddy. It sure helps to see matters in print and read them over . Monday,August 31. Today is Lukes 11th BD. We had a cake & ice cream for him on the weekend when they visited us.
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Sounds like a very pleasant QUIET weekend. lollollol Eric
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