The big plan was to drop Lili at work. Take the three littles for lunch. Go to the dollar store and teach Kai about money. Then grocery shop.
Kai did NOT want to go out. He didn't care about the plan. Zero interest in money or shopping. I thought it might be fun for Jia and Luk to have a day out just the two of them so I agreed to let Kai stay home with Fei.
Normally Jia and Luk work at tricking Kai to get time to themselves for their pretend play games. They go to great lengths to set Kai up with something and then sneak away. Funny to watch because if they told him what they wanted to do he'd likely say no thankyou. So, a day to themselves and they argued the whole time! Wild.
They loved eating at the Rock Cod and seeing big sister working. Then they took their shopping very seriously. Discussing how much they had, tax and change. They've both shopped before but they were still having fun. So cute. I wanted to take pictures but there was a line up and sometimes 'blog' pictures are a bit weird.
Jia choose a squish toy, stuffed bunny, silly putty and freezies. Luk picked, a car, a wrestler guy, a big blue centipede and gummy candy.
I didn't want Kai to feel left out so I got him a Lightening McQueen coloring book and Mickey stickers. He didn't notice the others had new things. So I've put them away for another day.
When we came home I found him lounging on the train table. 1/4" pressboard. He's WAY too heavy to be on the table and he's been told over 100 times to get off. Oy. I sent him to his room. He freaked. Once he calmed down he came downstairs and we bagged up the duplo and moved the table out. We were hoping a visual of favorite things being removed would help him learn. Sadly I don't see any evidence that he cares about the duplo missing. His routine is off and now he's reverting to some old annoying habits. Our own fault for changing his routine.
Now we need to reintroduce the duplo in a storage container. That was removed originally because we couldn't keep him out of the box and he had enough accidents that the chance of pee and poo in the box of blocks was too high. Sigh. We spend a LOT of our days strategizing on Kai issues. We even have meetings with the other four looking for help and ideas.
