Miss Annabelle and I were just not clicking today. I adore her, but she was really pushing my buttons and the worst part is I believe she was doing it on purpose. She’s a funny little girl, but my goodness is she independent and fiesty! I’m certain all the illness and break down of our schedule has taken its toll on all of us, but here’s a perfect example of Annabelle’s sassiness:

Let me explain – Annabelle would not sit in her chair for dinner. She was running around all over the house with chicken nugget in hand. I gave up the fight to  keep her seated and told her she could stand up and eat but she had to stay in the kitchen with her dinner.  She was not to leave the leave the hardwoods – no feet on the carpet.  And this is my girl walking the line, just testing the boundaries and her momma…..

Crossed the line…

Annabelle was full of tantrums and fussiness tonight. If she didn’t get her way she thew herself on the ground and let us know she was not happy. I was not well-equipped to deal with the fits tonight so she spent lots of time with her dadda. Here’s hoping she got all (or at least most) of her sass out tonight and tomorrow is a better day.

On a better note, Miss Gwyneth is  back to her old self again. She was the last one done eating and all smiles. Hopefully we can keep our girl happy and healthy through the rest of this winter. We didn’t get off to a good start, but we’re hopeful we can turn things around.

I should also mention I have strep throat. I woke up this morning feeling terrible and went straight to the doctor. I wasn’t messing around this time. I’m on antibiotics but contagious for 24 hours. I have to work from home the rest of the week and I cancelled most of our plans for the weekend. Oh boy, I think we’ve hit rock bottom!

Although Annabelle was quite a toot today she did crack me up – at 2 am! I woke up to giggles and found Annabelle snuggled in our bed right between B and me. I hadn’t heard her come in or climb up in the bed (I’m sick and really out of it!). She was very quiet and sneaky! She was walked back to her room and went back to sleep in her own bed. I think she was pretty proud of making it as far as she did!