Here comes trouble!

OOps! I forgot to post this last Sunday!

We are playing along again with Who Says 8 is Enough over at http://bouffard11.blogspot.com/ with her theme for today... Here Comes Trouble! This is not a difficult post for me AT ALL though I don't have that many pics of her actually getting in trouble because of her being so in tuned to things I usually hesitate to take pictures of it. But here are some that I did capture. Enjoy!

This is about 5 months old. Just before she was mobile (she crawled at 5 1/2 months). Look at trouble written all over that face!

Barely mobile and into everything.

She was upstairs at a friends house being "watched" by their Jr. High Boy. I hadn't heard her for a while and knew he was on the phone so we called up to him to check on her. I think we heard something to the effect of "Holy Cow" and we went up to find this. Click on it to see the full effect. Way to go Trent! Don't hire him for babysitting lol! :)

This spilt milk was because of Ms. Wiggles at the table.

No "trouble" here. Just my silly girl dressing herself up.

This is the kind of rolling eyes face we get that could only have come from spending 9 months in a girls group home with us and 10 teen girls. I didn't fully capture it here but you get the idea. She brings this out when she knows she is in trouble but not serious trouble. Serious trouble immediately results in tears from her. :)

And this, well this is her cute adorable face that helps her weasel out of trouble at times. I can't believe that was taken almost a year ago! Where does the time go?

Here's some fun posts on Spirit's best trouble days--aww, it was fun looking through them. She is such a pill!!!...

http://lifewithspirit.blogspot.com/2008/02/and-it-begins.html

http://lifewithspirit.blogspot.com/2008/03/day-in-life-of-spirit.html

http://lifewithspirit.blogspot.com/2008/03/hair-spray-inspired-pigtails.html

http://lifewithspirit.blogspot.com/2008/03/take-deep-breath-everyone-just-take.html

Have You Missed Us?

So I'm hoping you have missed my camera as much as I have! That little booger. Anyway...I do have some pictures to post from a quick visit I made to see my nieces who turned one yesterday! Let's see, I took a few others of my girl. I can't remember what else there is, but I'll just do a picture blog to catch everyone up. The good news is now I will have a camera!!!! Someone gave me some some money to get one but I'm not allowed to reveal who they are. But thank you! I can't wait!

Little Digger

Cute Cousins

A day in the life of spirit

Well, we are back to normal around here. B seems to be feeling just fine. She was extra chatty and extra active all day. I've recently had people ask me what is so hard about B and why I would consider her "Spirited". Now I have a suspicion these people may have a Spirited child of their own--and maybe even more so than mine! Or, remember, I only have this one kid! People who have four with one or-oh-my-goodness-more than one Spirited child in their group will surely be wondering why I think my girl is a little harder than the normal to raise. Now don't get me wrong here people, I don't think she does anything out of the realm of ordinary, I don't think she has special needs or anything like that. I just think on a scale of normal for things like activity or frustration level, she is always going to score on the high, high end. Not so high that she's "diagnosable" as I like to say but so high that parents who have different personality types of children think, whoa, glad that's not my kid! But I always have loved a challenge and have a suspicion that I may have been this same way as a kid so I'm so thankful God saw fit to let me be the one to raise her. It takes all kinds of people to make the world go round, right?! But let me give you just a few examples of what I think makes her "spirited"....

You may want to read a past post: Top 10 ways to know your life is filled with Spirit! to get a good start on what it all involves.

For one thing, as a parent of a Spirited Toddler you notice that naps get harder and harder to make your child take. And sleep for that matter just does not seem that important to your child. In fact, the less sleep B gets the worse she sleeps, but does that bother her? Not enough to actually sleep! She would rather be grumpy, rubbing her eyes, throwing fits that she gets in trouble for then to just finally settle down and sleep.

I also notice that she notices EVERYTHING. We can be in the grocery store and she will see a Shrek on a cereal box that is literally 2 inches tall and no kidding, 20 feet away from us and be pointing out Shrek and insisting on seeing it. I on the other hand have no idea what she is talking about because who in the world notices those kinds of things even if they are looking for them!

Here's one....

What do Yo Gabba Gabba Toys have in common with the little touching statue of the Father with his baby? She broke them! In a nano-second. Poor Foofa lost her Flower top hair and Plex had his arm amputated and lost the handle on his door. This is just the most recent pile of items that I saved to take a picture of. She is forever trying to figure out how things work and what buttons do and that sort of thing, therefore she is always prying, turning, twisting, etc. And well, this sort of thing happens. And she is extremely quick about it. (We are wondering if she will be an engineer someday.)

I wish I could put into words all the times things go a little haywire around here with her. Its so often and normal now, I think I just go through the motions and don't even think about it being odd. When I talk to my friends who don't have a spirited child I am quickly reminded. Let me just sum it up in my next pictures...

This was lunch. She got down so quickly to check something out on the floor (because she notices everything remember) that she pulled her place mat with her entire meal and cup of milk (which poured over her head on the way down, notice the plastered down part in her hair) onto the floor and all over the sides of the chairs and table. So whether there is a mess like this clean up during the day or not, this is pretty much how it feels a lot of the time to raise her... Like one big chaotic moment. Is she stinking cute in the middle of it? Absolutely. Is it a bit overwhelming to think about the job ahead? Well sure. Does it take extra effort you weren't planning on? I can't lie, it does. Would you trade it? Not with that cheesy grin staring back at you, not for anything in the world.