Have I convinced you yet?

Do you live near me and know me and STILL didn't go to the library book sale last weekend?? You see the books pictured above? I got them for all of $12. Yeah, that's right. Approximately 30 books for the price of one. ONE. I'm not kidding. The Little Engine that Could? Usually $9 at the store. Excellent condition. Cost me about 10 cents.

The next one's on November 20. Mark your calendars!

Recently

I had a birthday My mom and two of my younger siblings came into town.

Livia was in heaven! I hardly touched her on the days when Emily and David were around!

We went to the zoo with her cousins Ella and Beckham

Rode on a seahorse at Happy Hollow (this was a big deal. I could never get her to ride on an animal on the carousel. She just wanted to sit on one of the benches. Finally she decided that the seahourse was cool enough to merit her attention. And of course she loved it!)

And got into mischief. This is ink from a stamp pad...AFTER I washed her hands a few times. It took three days to fully go away. On this same day Livvy may or may not have stuck a stick-on-earring up her nose (WAY up her nose. On purpose), and scribbled on the kitchen floor in pen. Hooray for being two! Really though, Livia's a sweetheart. Her current obsession is coloring/painting/crafting, and she'll sit at her little table for hours each day making all sorts of creations. Her eating has improved slightly, but sometimes it's still all I can do to get her to eat three bites of ANYthing for dinner. She's picky, yes, but mostly she just doesn't eat.

Livia loves nursery, reading, playing at the park, and singing (though not necessarily MY singing). She does NOT like wind and always shrieks and yells at the wind to "go away!" She also dislikes getting dressed in the morning, and would wear her pjs all day long if I let her.

We love her. Ü

really?

I've been working with Livia on the concept of consequences. That if she does something bad she will receive some sort of punishment (usually a short time out or a loss of milk privileges). Tonight at dinner she chewed up a carrot in her mouth and then suddenly spit out the whole slobbering mess onto the ground. Logical consequence? She had to clean it up! (At least a good part of it)

What surprised me is the ATTITUDE she gave me about it! I expected some whining. But that's not really what I got! She was rolling her eyes at me, giving me withering glances (really, that's the only way to describe them), and saying things like "It's just too hard. Mommy do it" or "I can't do it. My hands will get dirty." That little scamp was coming up with excuse after excuse as to why she couldn't do it. I thought I was going to explode with trying to be patient through it all!

Makes me a little worried about the attitude I might be getting from her 14 years down the road...