Yikes

Wow, that was disastrous for us. Very chaotic, very loud, lots of running, door-slamming, chair-climbing, and in general not what I expected. I think... it would have been better outside at a playground, maybe. I didn't have a lot of takers on the shamrock craft. And... while Benny did get to play checkers with another little redheaded six-year-old boy, I didn't really like the games that were being played by the older kids. One of them said they were trying to play an army game and Benny was messing it up. And then asked me loudly in front of him if he had a speech problem. Sadie got knocked down a few too many times. It just wasn't a good scene for us. You know when Benny is the one marching around saying, "Stop shouting! Stop running!" that the chaos has reached a new and possibly unprecedented level. I think that after an hour, he just couldn't handle all the stimulus and started getting irritated. He did enjoy playing with that other boy. And Sadie had a nice time with a girl who was enjoying dressing her up, early on in the afternoon. We left early. It was just too much.