Monday, November 21, 2011

Oh Finley

First of all - let's talk about what she is wearing in this picture.
I was out running errands, and I come home to find that Mat had let Finley dress herself.  Doesn't she look pretty?  She is wearing all of her favorites.  A purple skirt.  Her orange sparkly shirt.  Skeleton socks.  And her white shoes that are a 1/2 size too small but she refuses to let me give them away.

These pictures just tell it all about Finley's personality.  She stands up for what she wants every.single.time.  Just because her favorites don't match each other in the slightest, she is still going to wear them all at once because SHE WANTS TO.
This personality is going to serve her well some day.  She isn't going to let people push her around.  But for now?  At 5 years old and this head strong?  She has Mat and I realing.  We have a lot of trouble finding things to "threaten" her with to make her behave.  Nothing seems to phase her - at least that is the show she puts on.
Tonight at Piano lessons she decided she wasn't really in the mood.  The piano teacher was sweet and told me we are going to "have lessons like this", but I just sighed heavy because again - this is Finley.  I talked to her the whole way to the lesson about how she was going to try her best and she would get two chapters read to her in her book tonight instead of one.  "yes yes" she said.  But we get there, and she is a mess.  Because she decided before she got in the door that tonight was not going to be the night she wanted to do her piano lesson.
Big.sigh.

Arlington was so easy.  She still is in a lot of ways.  At least when it comes to discipline.  Arlington wants to please.  She gets pleasure out of following the rules.  And Cainan - well, we all know our little old man at heart is a rule follower.  So to have this "free spirit" (especially when Mat and I are both first borns and not like her at.all.) is a challenge beyond anything I have ever experienced.

Thank goodness she is cute.

Disclaimer - yes - a few pictures above are pictures of Finley on the treadmill.  She is going about .00000001 miles an hour - she wanted to try it out.  She was on there about 10 seconds.  No we do not make our children walk the treadmill.   Although........  just kidding.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Who says you have to match?