Could Tanner get anymore beautiful??? And he is beauty personified in and out (IMHO) ;).?? Such a sweet tender boy and I think you can just really see it in the way he holds and looks at his sister (and she adores him too).?? If you look close, you will see Tori’s excema on her arms in these pictures.?? I have been using the topical steroids for two weeks and it has cleared up the rashes but the pigment has not returned yet.

She isn’t getting my rave review today however.?? She. Is. In. Trouble.

Remember my complaints last week about her destroying my room and all the stuff she got into??? I spent her naptime cleaning everything up, getting all the trash out, swapping everything out of that bottom drawer she likes so much, rearranging ALL my office utensils out of her reach (which means all my pens are way on top of my armoir which is not real convenient).?? She gets up from nap time and within the first three minutes (being literal) I find her walking around the house with a butterscotch candy in her mouth.?? No idea where she found it.?? Then she broke into a tube of Carmex with her finger and was scooping it out.?? Then she broke into the LOCKED bathroom drawer and digged out the nail clipper kits (yes she found more than one after I took the first one from her).

She also has started growling at me.?? Her little personality is so much like mine it is comical.?? If you come on strong and aggressive with Tori and I, you aren’t likely to hurt our feelings our make us cower.?? Instead we get very angry.?? As a result, when she sees me approaching with the mama stink eye, she is beating me to the growl like two squared off linebackers looking for weakness in the eyes of our opponent.?? And yes…I growl.?? I didn’t realize this until she started growling back however.?? A habit I must now break.???? You know that frustrated GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR kind of growl when you find that she has just tattooed her body in permanent ink yet again???? My mother growls too I’ll have you know.?? Still.?? Even today.?? I wouldn’t recommend you make her mad to experience it though hee hee.

Clearly I am dealing with a head strong little lady and I just admire the adorable socks off her.?? When she learns to channel that energy, she will be a force to be reckoned with someday.?? I pray that God softens mama in such a way that I can teach her to use that powerful personality in such a way that benefits her AND benefits everyone around her.?? I realize that it all starts with me.?? Parenting is a scary responsibility but my children make me want to be brave.?? I want to make wise and loving choices in my life so that my children reap the benefit of a life well lived.?? Love live out.

Must go now.?? Tanner yelling that Tori is naked again.?? Yes she was taped.?? Jim and I are discussing taping her overall style hee hee.?? Running out of options here folks.?? :)?? Heidi said this is one time that we should regret that she doesn’t have a pear shape.?? She couldn’t shimmy out of them.?? Cutting out feet in her pajamas and putting them on backwards.?? She is going to have to live with it.