Charles has been extra greedy for the last week or so.
It started when Mom took the crew out for a shopping trip. Charles got a book and Corwin got a Lego™ kit. Charles ended up throwing a major hissy fit soon after he got home because he didn’t get a Lego™ thing. He declared that he hated his book (although I caught him looking at it later).
A couple of days later the boys got some trinkets from a fast food place. Corwin got a Play-Doh thing. He wouldn’t let Charles play with it and so Charles declared that Corwin could not play with any of Charles’ toy ever again. I managed to keep Charles from completely melting down by setting him up with some other Play-Doh items (thanks, Erica!).
Today we went out to a model train show. As we left, Charles complained that “no one every gives me presents”. This while he was clutching two 24” chunks of Brio track that I had just purchased for him. I pointed this out and his response was to get very upset with me for being so gauche as to point out contradiction.
This evening Mom went out again and this time Charles got a Lego(itm) toy (he pestered Mom incessantly before hand, refusing to go along unless he was promised Lego™ in advance). Mom and I pointed out that Charles had, in fact, received a present. Charles countered by stating that he had picked it out, therefore it wasn’t a present.