One of my girlfriend's church was having a kids camp for all ages which means Callie could also join. I was so excited to register them for the week. It's called Kidz Kamp Pandamania. Each day of the week, they have a theme and verses that they get to learn about God. It's really cute with the things that they come home with. Their 1st day was on Tuesday and both girls had a hard time seperating themselves from me. Chloe was very excited to be with all of her friends until we actually got into the room then the nerves sunked in. Callie didn't even realized what was happening until she saw the ladies on the other side of the room then she started crying. The camp last for less than 3 hours a day so they manage to make it through the week with it. Chloe didn't like having to wear a blue shirt - each group had a color they have to wear for the week and Chloe's color is blue since she's in the 4 year old group. Callie's was white. It took me over 2 hours to get her dressed the next day. It was horrible - she fought me and kept undressing because the blue shirt wasn't cute, according to Ms. Chloe! I had to seperate myself from her because it was turning into world war 3. Steve had to step in because she was getting so dramatic thinking her Daddy was going to be the hero and save her! He calmly told her that she had no choice and how blue was his favorite color (which by the way, I also did try but of course, didn't work for me) and how she should always remember throughout the day that she's wearing the shirt for her Daddy because Blue is his favorite color!!! She reluctantly put it on and stopped fussing and on with the show!!! That night, we promised her that we were going to find her a cute skirt to match with that ugly blue shirt of hers so that she could still feel cute wearing it! The next day, dressing her took less than 15 minutes - she was very excited about what she was wearing and even danced for us!
Mind you, I've been dealing with this child's opinion of how things should be since she was able to voice out her own opinion at the ripe age of 18 months! I remember fighting w/ her of what she should wear and what she liked nor didn't liked. I'm only hoping that it only gets better as she gets older otherwise, I see uniform or boarding school in her near future!!! (lol) Callie is easy peasy - Chloe tried voicing her opinion about what or how Callie should dressed and of course Callie was gonna do what her sissy wanted her to do but I put a smack down on that idea...there's no way I'm gonna deal w/ 2 high maintenance girls!!! I just redirected Callie on something else and told Chloe that she needs to let me be the Mommy and that solve the problem right away. At the end of the week, every group, except for Callie's age group, they have a Finale. So Chloe's age group got up on the stage and sang a song for us - Chloe was of course place in the middle right next to her favorite friend, Avery.
Avery is Kat's daughter who is very outgoing and loves to be on stage. Chloe is very much the opposite...except she does love to sing and dance but only on her own terms and not such a big crowd. So when it came to their group's turn, both Steve and I knew that this was going to be very interesting. I got up in the front to take photos not realizing that she was going to be in the front center, my heart sunk for her. I could see how nervous she was and very uncomfortable. So I took a couple of quick shots and tried to distract her. I even tried to follow the instructors moves during their performance so that she can see me doing it also. For a little bit she tried to joined the group but for the most part she stood there...mind you she stood there like she was modeling...w/ her 1 hip to the side and hands crossed. You can't help but still think she looked so adorable even though I know in my heart she was super nervous. After they were done, I go back to where we were sitting and there's Steve full of tears from laughing so hard...he just couldn't help himself he said! Thanks a lot, Dad!!! lol
