Daddy's Day 2006
We took Tim on the Royal Argosy Father's Day Brunch Cruise as a surprise today. All 3 of us had a blast. Baby Girl was enthralled with the live trio (especially the drums)that played throughout our meal and afterwards, yummed up the cinnamon toast and melon pieces that I gave her from my plate, and enjoyed crawling and walking around upstairs on the top floor of the boat where they had colouring and painting and sticker art and lots of space to run around, and a showing of the movie "Finding Nemo", as well as an outdoor deck that was clean and safe. Definitely a very kid-friendly experience and one I highly recommend for those with little ones!
The weather was great and once we were out on the water, it was beautiful and warm on deck and Baby Girl enjoyed walking around and watching the water and the sailboats and the skyline.
All went rather well, until Baby Girl had her first encounter with a bully. He was about two years old and quite a bit bigger than her. It started with a keen interest on his part in her binky which was dangling from its clip on her dress, and quickly escalated into an arm slap (with mild admonishment from the mom) to a hit in the back (with much more severe admonishing from the mom) to a full on hard core shove in the back that pushed her right off her feet (with a swift yank by the arm from the mom and some pretty heavy duty scolding as she dragged him off for a punishment) and caused her to cry. Hell, it almost caused me to cry, and had the mom not been as fast as she was, and as clearly appalled and angry at her son's behaviour as she was, I'm not entirely sure what I would have, ahem, said, to the little delinquent.
And it wasn't one of those innocent 2-year-old doesn't-really-know-the-limits, testing-the-waters, unaware-of-his-own-strength kind of incident. No... he had this glint in his eye and an evil little smirk on his face the entire time, including when his mother made him apologize to her.
Nonetheless, Baby Girl made a swift recovery when we went back downstairs and enjoyed the live music. In order to prevent her from running onto the floor and grabbing their instruments, and an additional meltdown when I prevented her from doing just that earlier, in a flash of brilliance I stood her up in an empty booth table so she could face the musicians but wasn't able to actually get to them. And she enjoyed the music and bopped away, little knees a-bouncing and little hands a-slapping on the back of the booth, smile on her face the entire time. I think the musicians found her quite amusing (including the little tantrum she had when I dragged her off the floor crying because I wouldn't let her touch the drums). I didn't notice but Tim said although he didn't hear her protests, he did see everyone near the front laughing, including the musicians, so apparently we caused quite a stir of amusement during the tantrum and Mommy's subsequent grab-and-go of Baby Girl when all else failed ;-)
Anyway - the cruise was fun, Baby Girl enjoyed herself, as did Daddy (which was key!) and I, and now we're just hanging and relaxing. Baby Girl had her last bottle at 6:30 and has been asleep ever since. I didn't even get a chance to get her into her jammies.
Many more pictures of our day here.
Comments
What a sweet picture! Happy First Father's Day.
Posted by Auntie Patti on June 18, 2006 10:45 PM.