Hoppity

Isn't it great when your three-year-old, who was demonstrably tired all morning, if the unwarranted hitting littler kids and yelling "I don't like [poor innocent 20-month-old who just happened to get in her way]!" and repeatedly climbing in and out of the shopping trolley at the supermarket checkout* are anything to go by, then turns out not to take a nap? Well, yes, it's great at 7pm when she finally goes down for the night and you get to enjoy a rare early night of peace and perhaps some red wine (or perhaps a lot of red wine), but right now, it's not so great, no.

*My children wind up, not down, when tired. So if they can't stand still and are bouncing off the walls, that means they're exhausted. (Unless it's Dash, in which case it may also mean he is trying very hard to ignore the call of nature yelling at him from his bladder region.)