Post No. 50!

I just noticed...this is my 50th post. Yay me! I stuck to something. Wa-who!

Now on to some stories:

Yesterday we were on our way to gymnastics. As we were crossing the river, we saw a train. Amanda noticed there were 3 plane fuselages on it. She said: Mom, there's the train! It has planes on it!
Me: It sure does. They are going to make new planes out of them.
A: How?
M: They just make new planes out of them. (I don't know how...they just do, right? :0) )
A: Mo-om, Trains can't make planes! they don't have any hands!
----Geez Mom, I think to myself, don't you know anything!----

Amanda has this bad habit of hitting or pushing Sarah. I don't think she realizes that it hurts people to do that.

So, one day last week, I was on the phone with Dave and out of the corner of my eye, I see Amanda smack Sarah on the back of the head 3 times. Having had it with the warnings, I decided to show her how it feels to be smacked in the head with no warning. So, I reached over and smacked her on the side of the head. (Now before you call CPS on me...you should know that when we are playing and I thump her on the bumm, I hit harder than I hit her in the head) Oohhh, the surprise on her face! Then, I asked her how she liked being hit out of nowhere. Well, needless to say a few tears had to be dealt with. I felt a little bad, but I'm so sick of Sarah getting picked on by Amanda. I will not tolerate bully's. In fact, this reminds me of another "bully" story...

I had caught Amanda pushing Sarah down when I wasn't looking or so she thought. I told her not to do that it wasn't nice. I said if I caught her doing it again, I would push her down. Let her see how it feels to have someone bigger picking on her. Hmph! Then, i went back to washing the dishes. Well, that little stinker started saying "I'm going to push down Sarah. I'm going to push down Sarah." I warned "Don't you do it. You'll be sorry!"

Well, that little brat did it! She didn't just push Sarah once. NO! That didn't push Sarah to the ground. In the time it took for me to dry my hands, Amanda had pushed Sarah 3 times to get her to fall down. Aahhh! I was so mad. After I dried my hands, I walked right up to her and without a word, I pushed her to the ground. (I felt so bad, but it had to be done) Oh, boy did the waterworks start! But, you know what? After a good talk about how she felt and how she thought Sarah might have felt when she got pushed down (or hit), she hasn't done either since. Now, if I could just figure out how to stop the screaming at each other. :0) Aahhh, sisters.

Sarah has been so cute. She's trying to teach herself how to wink. I do it to her and then she squints up her eyes and blinks really hard. She's also started trying to spin in circles. But, she's not very good at it. She does it really slow and then falls on her rumpus all the time. One thing she's very good at is climbing. Oh, boy! This girl is going to give me heart attacks. She has no fear AT ALL! She climbs the ladder on our play structure and now she's trying to climb all our furniture. Aaaahhhh!!!!