uuhhh not quite what I meant..

So I have always had the same lackadaisical approach to potty training for all my girls, which is..here is a potty, if you want to use it great, if not..great. Well all of my girls just one day woke up and never wore diapers again its been a real dream. Faith on the other hand has been wildly different. For instance, we call Faith the bathroom valet, she insists on escorting people to the bathroom, she insists on dispensing properly meted out portions of toilet paper, and then also insists on flushing. So whats the big hold up?

The other day, I was delighted when, for no apparent reason Faith was asking me to get her potty from the garage. I go and get her fancy baby Bjorn potty and dust it off and to my amazement she seats herself on it for a good half an hour. I get myself all in a dither and get her some underwear to wear I can barely contain myself I am so giddy! only about 5 minutes later she comes to me completely soaked in her pants..her little pink crocs filled with urine..Perfect! just what I like, I mean its not a big deal these things happen. So, I clean her up and get her a new pair of underwear only 10 minutes she comes to me with them filled with you know what..pooh! I mean, what the heck! So I decide that delicate poop filled underwear extraction isn't in the cards for me, I grab a pair of scissors and cut them off her, This time I tell her to just use the potty for crying out loud! Only 5 minutes later, she is sitting on her potty using the pot as a top hat! It was at this point that diapers were called for and now the baby Bjorn is now used as a stepping stool, a t.v. viewing seat, and a polly pocket swimming pool...neat huh?

God made her extra cute for a reason.

"please god, don't let me pinch her head off. She only does it because she delights in mischief, she is not evil, but good and kind and you made her extra cute for a reason, But I also see why in nature some mothers eat their young"

I said this prayer to myself when I had simply had enough of Faith's hi-jinks, her whole life Faith has been quite a character. Everyone adores Faith, if I believed in fairies I would have to believe she was one. She makes everyone smile, and everyone always gravitates towards Faith and no ONE is immune to this child's charm....but today..oh today, I nearly clipped this Fairies wings. So, it is my habit to let faith accompany me to the mail box each day to collect the mail, most days she invokes minor annoyance with her endless dilly dallying. But today, its raining and the child heads right out the door and into the woods behind my house, which brought on panic because there is quite a big stream that runs through, So I have to clomp on through the mud and leaves to collect my heathen. I advised faith I was angry and to get in the house right now! I even managed to wear my "for reals this time, I am mad!" face. She ran right in the house and I could see clearly she understood I was angry, I go to walk in the door behind her only to nearly knock myself unconscious because the little darling had locked me out of the house. Well, Now I was pissed! When I finally got in the house I let faith know that she was naughty and was going to have a timeout. Just as soon as I got some bread out of the fridge in the garage. When I got the bread, again I was met with being locked in the garage this time. It was this time that I prayed to heavenly father that Faith's head remain intact. And so Faith got her first ever 1 swat on the bottom. It hurt her feelings for sure, she isn't used to being reprimanded after all being the golden child and all. As I was saying, God made her extra cute for a reason I am sure of it!