Last night in bed I started laughing out loud as I thought about a little "incident" we had at church on Sunday. I wasn't laughing then though. I was a quite embarrassed!
The story starts with a darling little crochet scarf that my grandmother made for Annaliese a few years back. It is very popular among the girls but we only have one. On Sunday morning Adeline was the lucky girl who found it first and got to wear it. When we settled in our seats at church our coats and scarfs came off and were placed on the floorspace beside us. Just as the sacrament tray was coming our way Avrie decided to pick up "Adeline's" scarf from the ground. Oh dear. "NO MINE!" "MINE!" "No MIIIIINE!", "Ahhh, MINE!!!!" Full on tug of war breaks out! Annaliese starts yelling louder than the twins are yelling, "Let GO, LET GO! Avrie LET GO!" All this is happening while the poor deacon passing sacrament is trying to offer us the bread by placing it in front of my nose while at the same time trying not to get knocked over by the fight happening under his feet. Oh dear. It was tricky but Kermit and I were successful in breaking up the fight and in taking the sacrament. Talk about multi tasking! Everybody was calm by the time the water came around. Sigh... But it is really funny now! These girls during church can be a challenge at times. I know they are capable of whispering and playing quietly but getting them to whisper and play quietly is an interesting task!
Speaking of tricky....I got my 3 parenting books in the mail that I ordered from Amazon. The first one I've started to read is "Raising your Spirited Child" by Mary Sheedy Kurcinka. So far I feel validated that I indeed have a spirited child on my hands. In fact there is a set of detailed questions to answer on how your child reacts to different situations. After the quiz you tally your points. If you score 9- 19 points you have a low-key cool child. If you score 19-28 you have a spunky child. If you score 29-45 you have a "spirited" child. My spirited child scored 85!!!! Off the charts spirited! I'll be reading on! This book got good reviews- we'll see if it helps us!
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6 comments:
oh man- i need to take that quiz.
So did you combine Adi and Avrie's score to get that '85'? Holy moly!!! Thankfully, someone wrote a book about it because I have no advice--just keep reading...
Love you! Good luck!
what a great story. I love that they duked it out for that scarf. SO funny....I mean not so funny.
Spirited....That's a good word. I bought books that all used "Strong Willed". Have fun reading.
Hi Alison! It's Tonja (Thompson) Whitford from forever ago... Anyway, I found your blog on Shannons blog who found my blog from my cousin Summers blog. I guess you can find anyone in Mormonville land. Anyway, what a cute family you have! I was so excited to find your blog. You are so funny. I was cracking up as I read some of you blogs. You sound like me... (No more gymboree, bath time taking up every last ounce of energy etc.) Love it!
Oh, my gosh, I have so many comments about this. FIRST, do you remember me suggesting "Raising a Spirited Child" book to you? I remember talking about it with you when we discussed how Avrie is a LOT like Emma! I am SOOOOOO glad you got it. It is one of the books that changed my life and really helped me with her. I look at her different now. I could probably use a refresher course on her though. So happy you are reading that. And, I love that your girls were fighting over the "favorite" scarf... welcome to parenting more than one child! There is a funny bill cosby scetch about how parents with one child are NOT really parents... it takes fighting children to really parent. Brace yourself, girls will be fighting about what color they get and where they sit and such for the rest of your life... I cannot believe the lame things Shailey and Emma still fight over... "it is YOUR turn to sit in the back, I sat in the back last time"... fight, fight, fight. Oh, and when you told your story, I thought of Nemo, when the pelicans said, "mine, mine, mine". Too funny! The only thing better would be a picture of them rolling on the ground with the sacrament tray over their heads! Ha ha!
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