In the past couple of weeks, Annalyn has learned how to be naughty. She’s starting grunting and hitting when she gets mad, or when you don’t do what she wants. (Or when you have the nerve -the Nerve! – to put your foot on the piano bench while she’s playing her masterpiece.) She’s decided that spitting is fun, and she’s so determined that she won’t stop no matter the discipline we hand out. She’s even learned every parent’s favorite word: NO.
So now, more than ever, I treasure the quiet moments when she’s my sweet baby again. Like last night when she actually sat still in my lap and let me read her a bedtime book.
I have a feeling that my feisty girl is going to test the boundaries, the limits, my patience for many years to come. But as long as I have can enjoy those sweet moments, I think we’ll make it through.
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ohhh i hear you on the sweet & sassy moments. :) (i have a little girl that just turned 2)
My little girl just turned six and I also cherish the moments when she is in my lap, cuddled up with me…….
I know these moments are fleeting and I times I just can’t hold on tight enough.
Just this morning I helped put tassles on her class’s kindergarten graduation caps. I know that in a blink of an eye I will be putting tassles on a different graduation cap and it pains me.
Live, and love, every moment.
.Oops!….should have said “at times”.
Thank you for sharing this. That photo is beautiful of her.
We have definitely had our share of Naughtyness over here being that Bubbalu is 2. Lil Chick is soon to follow in the drama department, I’m sure :)
The days that Bubbalu is the naughtiest and I want to tear my hair out and run screaming from the house…I always seem to fall back in love while watching him sleep…and God grants me patience to continue :)
Blessings!
Oh my, they do like to test the waters, don’t they? Well, my sweet Amy has been testing the waters for a while. I always say she is going through her terrible two’s still. Ummm… by the way, did I mention she will be 27 in a few months? ROTF!
Let me give you a word of wisdom that a beautiful christian friend of mine gave me years and years ago. She told me that the leaders of our world are strong willed people and to rejoice when I see my Amy being strong willed and what we would call “bull headed” because she was going to mature and become strong spirited. God created her and He would help her to mature that into something He would use later.
My Amy is the mother of FOUR children! Uh huh… she needs that strong spirit ALOT! So… see this as something that can be shaped and molded by God! And always remember, it is their will we try to break at times, not their spirit!
Hugs to you and your sweet little precious girl! Oh… and it is okay to smile when you discipline. Sometimes you just have to laugh at their antics!
Tänia of Faith Prints
That’s a beautiful picture :-D.
Don’t worry…they outgrow this phase, and then they are in the “I don’t want” phase and then it’s the “why?” phase…not sure what comes after that–we’re not there yet :-D.
One thing I noticed was we disciplined Honor a lot more than we discipline Samuel–I don’t know if it’s because our attention is distracted by the other 3, if we, as 1st time parents, expected more from her or if it is because we’ve mellowed over the years, but that boy gets away with a LOT! :-D
But yes, cherish these little moments because in only a few short years you will look back and say “I don’t remember her being that little!” We are already saying that and our oldest are only four! :-D
I think they know exactly how/when to balance out the “spirited” moments with the sweet moments :)
Oh she is BEAUTIFUL!!! Your story and her hairlessness remind me so much of my little Emmeline, who is every bit as strong willed and bald. She seriously didn’t have hair for 2 entire years and still has not much.
I like to think that these strong girls of ours are going to grow up to be steadfast and immoveable. I always tell my husband that at least we can know that our girls won’t succumb to peer pressure!
xoxoxxoxo
Those girls sure can be sassy sometimes and try their mama’s patience! I’m glad you have those wonderful, quiet, joyful moments to help you through the not-so-fun moments. :)
i rather fancy your last paragraph could have easily come from the Mouth Of God concerning His ‘little girl’ ;-)
I’m guessing that, like most mothers of young, increasingly independence-seeking children, you are going to be learning a lot about how God feels as He watches over us as we grow day by day.
i hope you have something approaching His patience and forgiveness ‘cos you just might need it! :-)
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Believe or not when she is 16 and some boy is pressuring her or her peers are you will be glad she is stong willed.
Take that extra moment to lock those hugs you get now into your memory bank, they are precious.