shock and awe!

My almost 4 years daughter is like the most sweet and spoiled girl, with (so far) a huge balance of love and stubbornness.  She's like me, but also like daddy. She can be so aware of things and be the most caring person of the world... but she can also be fully determined in getting what she wants.  It is of course a good thing... Except when you want to use it against mommy.

Today, she just came downstairs and said to me: "mammie, I don't wanna have earings anymore".

She wears the third pair of gold earings now.

I asked her: "why sweety?" and she said: "I don't like them". When I reached at her ears, I noticed the earings were gone, to which I added:"where are they?". And she said: "don't know but I don't need them cos I don't like them".

It seems she lost them accidentally when removing it and playing with them, so she had the great idea of saying she didn't liked so that I didn't mind she had lost them...

I, as a good determined mother, told her to find them, she did it and brought them to me. I did them in her ears and told her on the most clear way that if she removed them again she will be in PROBLEMS!!!! with MEEEE!!!!.

When she left, I asked daddy: "was that scary enough?" and he said: "shock and awe!"

Just google it ;-)