Since it has been almost seven weeks since I had had a spare moment to kidnap my favorite munchkins and take them out for an afternoon on the town, Cory and I headed over to the King household this afternoon after church and grabbed the girls to go see Monsters VS. Aliens for J’s birthday. I should have known that every experience with them has some amount of drama, but today took the cake. From the start the middle munchkin had her nose out of joint and refused to smile or even look at Cory. (She’s quite the jealous 4-year old.) Instead she stopped singing and just scowled at him, every time he turned to look at her in the car.

Once we got to the theatre, she decided to turn her wrath on me because her dad and I had decided they didn’t need popcorn. It took everything within me to not laugh at her when she told me, “I’m so mad at you that I can’t even look at you right now.” Wonder where she’s heard that? But once the movie began, she quickly forget her anger and crawled up in my lap. After this minor, popcorn-free meltdown in the movie theatre, I thought we had survived the worst until I found our lil miss thing was ordering Cory to ‘go home’ every time I wasn’t within earshot. Apparently, when I’m not in the room, she’s the boss. Let’s just say her mom and dad were not thrilled with her treatment of C, but by the end of the evening, she had decided to like Cory again and all was right in the world. Just in case you’ve wondered how mean a 4 year-old could possibly be… I’m including a photo of the look she was giving Cory. She’s quite a stinker.