Ellie's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Before we left for ballet.

After my terrible, horrible, no good very bad day.


It was Wednesday morning....play group day, and the day of my very first ballet lesson. I was SO excited. Play group was at our community pool and I have been swimming almost every day and even learning to swim without my swimmies on. I was SO excited. Mommy has been telling me about ballet class for many weeks. I got a ballet dress, and tights, and tap shoes, and ballet shoes. I was SO excited.

Things were going ok until after my nap. I was so excited for ballet that I barely slept. I put on my leotard and ballet skirt. I carefully put my ballet and tap shoes in my princess backpack. Mommy put my hair all the way up in a bun just like a real ballerina. I was SO excited.

We got to the place where my lesson was and sat down to wait. And wait. And wait. No teacher. Uh oh. It was going to turn into a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. We waited and waited some more. When I put my head down to cry on mommy's shoulder because I was so sad about my teacher not being there, I realized that my ear really hurt. It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day.

Well, the teacher never showed up. "Maybe next week" they said. I was SO disappointed. But, mommy said we could go eat and play at McDonalds instead. On the way she called the doctor who said I had swimmers ear and that I couldn't go to the pool for a whole week. It's 105 degrees here...we'll see about that. It was a terrible horrible no good very bad day.

It was so hot that the Mc Donalds play place stuff burned my hands and I couldn't play on it. My chocolate treat melted into a puddle between the check out and the car. And when we put it in the freezer to harden up again I STILL couldn't eat it because now it was so hard it made my ear hurt when I chewed. I had to lay on the couch while Mommy put in ear drops that cost a million dollars (well, I think it was close to that much based on her reaction at the drug store) and I couldn't hear my movie with this cold wet stuff in my ear! It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. I think I'll just go to bed.