I'LL JUST PRETEND, MOMMY

Ok, so she fooled me twice today and once yesterday and I think even a few other times in the last week, but I'm on to her now!

Yesterday I overheard Sophia talking to Lamby about measuring how tall he is and making a tick mark on the wall. I saw her running to a door frame to make her mark with a black crayon. I stopped her and told her NOT to write on my walls. I told her Daddy would be really mad if she wrote on the walls too. She told me that she would JUST PRETEND. And, need I really say this part, I believed her.

Later in the day I saw that had she made four or five different tick marks on the wall.

Today she fooled me two other times with her I'LL JUST PRETEND, MOMMY. And when I later find out that she did more than pretend she literally fights and screams. She's trying to manipulate me and, just like her little friends, starting to talk back too. We know she's just testing her boundaries, but man! She's only two, what are we in store for when she's 12 when she's testing a whole different set of boundaries?