Angry Words

"Angry words, oh let them never, (sing it with me) from thy tongue unbridled slip..." Gracie, Gracie, Gracie. Man, she is, is, well, she is something!! I know I have said on my blog before how she can be really mean at times, but either A) we are seeing it more cause we are with her more right now, B) she is getting worse or C) she is going through a "testing" time (you know every few months let's see how my parents react to this). Last week we went through the whole, "You're really MEAN Mommy!" thing and this week she has said things like, " I don't want Daddy to go to Wal-Mart with us, I hate him" and "You are not my sister any more." Can I just tell you how much I love listening to my three-year-old say those things, it's fabulous! (I have NO idea where she gets her attitude!) Lexi is more of a puncher, but I can handle that a lot more. It's easy to explain to a child that if you punch someone it hurts so don't do it, but it is hard for children to understand that words can be just as hurtful, if not more. Why can't we all just get along? My kids need a break from each other!!

(OK, she is not really being "ugly" as we call it in our house, in that picture, she was trying to be funny, but it worked well with this post.)

A side from her meanness, she also says some really funny things too that I have also posted about before. She has some issues with a few of her speech sounds so Jon and I correct her all the time and try to get her to say it correctly. ("f" for "th" mainly but she also has this thing with the word "world" she refuses to say it, instead she says "Lord" You know, "All the children of the Lord." and "He's got the whole Lord in His hands." and also, "You get the best of both Lords." she is crazy.) Well, always before when we would correct her she would huff and say, "I cannot say that!!!" but I told her that it is not good to say "I can't," so now she says with gritted teeth all huffy like, "I can say, what I can say!!" For some reason that sounds so funny to me. Granted she is still not correcting her speech, but at least she isn't say "I can't." That's progress, right? We have a LONG way to go with this one!