Finally the Tennis Tortument! (this is how he pronounced it I didn't make it up)

James has waited all week at tennis camp to finally play a real game.  He was soooooo excited when he learned that on Friday, they would be playing real games to determine the tournament winner.  Here is how it went down....
We got James to camp and he readily got out his racket and raced to the court.  He was ready to finally play the real game after a week of practice.   The coaches were still setting up the courts so James had to wait.... tennis racket hit the ground... foot stomped... arms crisscrossed across his chest.... stomped over to the chairs and plunked down pouting (****! will be used for this behavior for the rest of the posting).  One of the coaches started a game of Simon Says, which by the way, James is master at!  James got happy again, and got to the finals and then twinged without Simon saying so was out. ****!  Finally the courts were ready, and the kids were paired off.  However, the playing space wasn't the whole court. ****! His aide finally got him going and James was ready to play.  He didn't win the first set or the second set.  The first set was 10/4 (simple scoring not tricky tennis scoring) and the second was 10/8.  ****!****!****!
We decided to leave so we didn't have to watch him in meltdown the rest of the day.  I guess the rest of the camp went fairly well although James didn't get to swim due to defiant behavior.  We hope that next week when he goes back to camp things will be easier for all.

In our house, all are welcome and accepted as friends

He did come home with an award ribbon which he likes and we had gotten two aquatic frogs and two guppies to add to his fish tank so his betta would have a few friends.  He told us we needed to take the other fish back because his fish "Rainbow" is a fighting fish.  We explained that the betta fighting fish only fight other male betta's so it is okay. Rainbow is much happier now that he has some friends.