sprog blog: The Great Egg Roll Meltdown

On days when G doesn't nap, our household is often faced with the impending meltdown cloud of doom. Watching your child meltdown can be at once aggravating and amusing. The amusing part occurs only when its in the relative comfort and privacy of your own home and thus far from the hairy eyeballs of other people. Last night's episode was pretty epic because it shows the loop that occurs as his sleep deprived 3.5 year old brain struggles with wanting something unattainable...

Scene is late dinner time. Food has been eaten and ice cream is in order.

G-man: I want one of those crunchy things Papa was eating.
j3n: Crunchy things, the egg rolls?
G-man: Yeah, an egg roll. Can I please have an egg roll?
j3n: Sorry G, but Papa ate all of them, would you like some rainbow ice cream for dessert?
G-man: I don’t want ice cream I just want an egg roll!

*Commence minutes of tearful demands for egg rolls, huge alligator tears with hiccuping included. Both parents eyeballing each other while trying really hard not to laugh at the egg roll meltdown because the sprog is so fierce in his belief that he *needs* the egg roll or life as he knows it will be utterly lacking forever and who knew the lack of egg rolls could be this traumatizing, seriously?*

j3n: Okay that’s enough with the egg roll demands. You need to calm down. You are getting too worked up. Let’s try something else, how about I make you egg rolls for lunch tomorrow, okay?
G-man: NO! I REALLY WANT AN EGG ROLL RIGHT NOW!

*G-man gets much deserved time out in bedroom*

j3n: Are you done? Are you ready to come out now?
G-man: Yeah, but Mama - can I please just have an egg roll?