5-5-13

Anna Claire surprised me at church today.  We got out of Andy's truck (he had taken Juliana in my car earlier) and started to walk to the church.  We were talking about the color of vehicles around us - "white car," "blue truck" etc.....then she saw my car and said "Mama car!"  I just couldn't believe she would have paid enough attention to recognize our vehicle.  She must be much more observant than I give her credit for!!

Her biting has drastically improved also - no biting since Monday night.  We had revival and I was in the nursery.  She was in the older kids class and she bit the visiting music minister's daughter.  They brought her to me and I took her to the bathroom and asked her if she bit her, yes she did she said, told her it was wrong, yadda yadda and then I told her I had to spank her.  Spanked her.  She then went right back in the nursery and within fifteen minutes she bit another child (incidentally it was the visiting music minister's YOUNGEST child - ACK!!) so I took her back to the bathroom and told her that I would have to bite her so that she knew how it felt.  So I did it.  Against all my parenting instincts, I bit the poor child.  Not hard hard, but enough to hurt.  Then I asked her if it hurt - she said yes and I asked her if she wanted to make other kids hurt - she said no (tearfully).  I felt like a BIG. FAT. JERK.  But she hasn't bit again since then!! YAYAYAYAY!

Nani had to leave today. She was sad and so were we!

Anna Claire looked so pretty for church!

But Nani left this girl a surprise! She loves her little princesses!