she may look innocent

To say that Harper and I have struggled the last two or so weeks is a vast understatement.  Every day she becomes more and more independent and strong willed and with that has come this notion that she needs to challenge anything and everything I try to do and say where she is concerned.  Case-in-point, I tried to get her dress on her before church on Easter Sunday and she refused to put it on.  The minute I mentioned her pretty dress she started screaming at me.  When I tried to put it on, she screamed harder and attempted to hit me before throwing the dress across the room.  15 minutes later when Grandma showed up, little Miss Innocent was more than cooperative.  Jump forward a few hours and Mommy is again trying to get her dressed to go to Grandma's for dinner and she again throws a fit.  Daddy brings her dress in and she smiles while fully cooperating.  This whole dress thing came after three days of her and I butting heads about EVERYTHING!  

I am on to her game, though...she is trying to make me forget all the wretched tantrums she has thrown with sweetness and she is not playing fair at all.  Last night, after four days of torture, crying and frustration on both sides, she woke up about an hour after I had put her to bed.  I hadn't gone to bed yet so I took her to the living room where we could snuggle up in the dark for a few minutes.  She kept turning around to look at me, holding my face in her little hands and giving me kisses.  It didn't make me completely forget but I definitely went to sleep a little while later a little less frustrated and angry than I was before she got up.

This too shall pass, right?