birthday party disipline.

i can't beileve my little man is a year old. already. i made him a cake on his real birthday, it turned out fantastic. the actually party, my sister made it, and as usual, her's was way more artistic then mine, and so yummy. well... both cakes were good to eat. :)

anyways... we just had the family over, and after the food was done, and the cake was eaten, along came presant time. yeah! not really.
all the kids were maulling him. we had emmit's uncle take video but you can hardly see him in the video... just his little head and all the othe kids opening his gifts. awe.

i had stool beside me and i had been putting the clothes emmit got, along with the cards emmit got on top. i must have said something wrong when i told all the kids to 'backup, and give emmit some room...' one of the kids walked by and shoved all the clothes and cards onto the floor. i had then asked him if he did that... and he smiled and said yes. i proceeded to ask why... he said because he wanted to. i kept my cool, said 'you goof' and picked up the stuff. meanwhile his parents sitting behind me found it very unapproiate for me to call their son a goof. and left. without a goodbye, a thank-you... nothing. RUDE!

the next day i find out... the reason they left... was because i called their son a goof! and they want me to apologize. i am going to, just to their son. not to them. in the back of my mind i have no idea why im apologizing... because to me, i've done nothing wrong.

if that was my kid at their house, and they did the exact same thing, i would have said... 'pick that up'... but thats the difference i guess... my kids wouldn't have done something like that, and if they did... i would be diciplining them... not other people.

i guess the difference is i watch and look after my own kids while im out... i don't expect other people to watch and dicipline my kids. if they don't listen to me, they are not going to listen to you!