There are worse things to be in it for.

Max is attending day camp this week. This is a camp that costs $40, lasts from 9am to 4pm and is not a Vacation Bible School run by Baby Eating Presbyterians. So far it sounds awesome right? I picked Max up yesterday and he was wearing a pretty awesome fake mustache that made him resemble a character (in my mind) called "The Side Kick" from the Sabotage video.

He seemed to have had a good time. Until a few hours later when he told me he didn't want to go back. That he didn't like it. It was boring. It was also torture. All this ended with an hour long screaming session reminiscent of his cranky (and constipated) second year on this planet.

This morning when Max was a little calmer I asked him why he seemed so happy when I picked him up from camp yesterday but now says he hates it?

"Mom, I was only in it for the mustache."

Comments

[MrsWaltz]

We're in Week 4 of Day Camp of the Non-VBS variety ourselves and I have to say, it has gotten a little easier. We're down to 3 tantrum refusals per week (never Wednesdays; Wednesday is movie day). Thank goodness my niece-slash-summer-nanny arrives next week!

[zeghsy]

nice... only in it for the mustache. nice... :)

[HouseofJules]

That should be on a t-shirt!
Jules
House of Jules

[Kerry]

Awesome! Not the screaming tantrum part, of course. I'm not sure how you managed not to kill him, but the mustache comment makes me glad you did.

Now I'm going out to weed my garden with "Sabotage" stuck in my head.

[Mamasteff]

Yes, we tried day camp one week and after the third day I told her she had to come up with something to say other than "We have to walk. To everything. We have to walk from the computer room to the basketball gym. We have to walk from the gym to the pool. We have to walk from the pool to crafts... It's so exhausting, I don't ever want to do it again."

[Astrogirl]

HA! Only in it for the mustache - I think I'm gonna die. That kid is something...

Of course, my own kid would probably say something like that - or more likely, he'd say he was in it for the food. At least they're honest - that's gotta be worth something, right? That's what I keep telling myself anyway.

[Karen]

Haha, that's great. I agree with Jules --- any plans for a bumper sticker?? :)

[Jenn @ Juggling Life]

What else would you be in it for?

[Dawn]

I love it. I second the motion for a bumper sticker.

As a regular Presbyterian, I'd like to assure you that we're never offended by being called Baby Eaters. In fact, I always thought that's what the other Presbyterians called us. That may be why she was offended - maybe she thought you were accusing her of being a regular Presbyterian.

[Kathleen]

I think Tom Selleck said the same thing about Magnum P.I.

[Velma]

I can't believe someone beat me to the Magnum P.I. joke! Damn!

[Bethiclaus]

He's destined for Stache Internache. Awesome.

[Suze]

Perhaps he should go to the Baby Eater as presumably that wouldn't be boring. Messy, but not boring...

[Susan]

Ugh we're having the SAME DAMN SUMMER (but no mustaches, sadly). I get crying on the days the kid goes to camp because he wants to stay home and crying on the days he stays home because he wants to do fun things, like they do at camp.

Grrr ....

[Mermaid]

I love that we never quite know what kids are thinking--they are so complex and simple at the same time :) My kids aren't in camp this week and I'm the one crying every day.

[amyz5]

but of course!

aren't we all in IT for the mustache?

[jkopftwins]

Perhaps 'stache boy needs a, ahem, stash of different styles to keep him happy.. glue-on mustaches of various kinds. I kind of see him as a mutton-chop with walrus mustache, myself, but he may prefer the dapper little kind that curls up at the ends.

If that doesn't cure the crankiness, I'm already out of ideas!