Matt was working tonight so Makaela and I decided to head to a local school fair with Jaimi and her kids, Kaila and Brody. I thought it was going to be fun, but it was actually more of a conditioning experiment. Makaela was extremely overstimulated. She loved the bouncy house so much, that it was a chore to get her out. Once she was out, she had a meltdown. She couldn't understand why she couldn't stay in. It was an exercise in teaching Makaela patience. Trying to teach a 1 1/2 year old to wait 5 minutes for her next turn is definitely trying, but we kept doing it and waiting on the line for our next turn. By the end of the night though, her meltdowns got shorter and shorter. The teenager collecting the tickets actually stopped collecting tickets from us because she felt so bad for Makaela. Everyone loved watching her squeal and bounce around, but no one liked seeing her cry.
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