8-23-12

I'm so overdue for an update!! Anna Claire has been learning and developing mentally SO much! It's like an intellectual growth spurt!

Ever since we got home from Jax in July though she's been SUPER clingy to me. For WEEKS she's been mean to her daddy, not wanting him to do anything for her at all. It's been pretty rough, honestly. She's just now starting to come out of it. I'm so thankful! I don't know if it had something to do with him being gone two separate weeks or what....not fun for any of us though.

Having to start disciplining her more than we were though. She's smarter now, so there is more for her to get into! The more she learns the more creative ways she finds to test us! Haha!! Andy had to pop her little hand at Piccadilly the other day for standing up in her chair and turning around. A
few min later she started to do it again and he told her to sit down. She replied, "no, no ow dada!" of course then we bust out laughing. She's so unexpected!

AC is learning to try to manipulate us---before bed if we tell her it's time to go night night she will say "I sit! I sit!" (she knows that if she sits still with one of us on the couch that she usually gets to stay up a few more minutes...) :-)

I kept Ian Gluck last Friday night which was interesting. He has learned to shove and kick and tried some of those tactics with Anna Claire. Although she is 6 months younger, she didn't let him bully her!! Unfortunately she just responded in kind....not sure whether to cheer her on or scold her for being bad. Especially when last night at church she was extremely aggressive with Autumn Clark--usually its the other way around but I had to severely scold her and make her give Autumn a kiss after I caught her trying to grab her face and push her in order to take her toy....oh the joys of two year olds! :-)

Still our precious girl--she loves to cuddle and thinks that when she wakes up the first order of the day is to cuddle on Mom's bed and watch Disney Jr!