Would You Like Some Cheese With Your Whine?

When traveling with a child, you really learn the meaning of give and take. There will be whining, defiance, retaliation, and maybe even some tears. In the end though, the experiences you have while on vacation usually far outweigh any protesting you will listen to. Today was one of those days where everything we did was met with Maya's dragging feet and announcements of how she didn't want to do anything we wanted to do.

Today's schedule was pretty easy...on paper. The only thing we had planned was seeing the San Diego Padres baseball team play. Now, granted, Maya has been saying a lot lately that she doesn't like going to baseball games (much to Josh's disappointment). When she whined with every step of the three block walk from the car to the stadium, however, I knew we were in for a trying time. She ran off, she didn't listen when I told her to stop doing [insert bad behavior], and one time even squished what seemed to be half a bottle of sunscreen on her arms (yay for liking sunblock though!).

Despite her protesting and somewhat bad behavior, she really did like the game. She got a baseball shaped backpack (a giveaway for the kids today), she got to play in the sandbox the Padres have in the outfield bleacher area, and she seemed to enjoy telling her really bad knock knock jokes to the people sitting behind us. Her favorite item of the day, though, was her Padres temporary tattoo. She thought she was pretty hot stuff after I put that on her and made sure she showed it to everyone who made eye contact with her. The infamous whine wasn't gone for long though. Once she found out that it would probably come off when she took her bath, she declared that she just wouldn't take any more baths. *sigh* I'm really looking forward to bath time tonight.