Sassy!

Boy oh boy, Miss Jasmine Belle!  For only being 2 1/2, you certainly know what you want!  Lately she has insisted on only wearing short sleeve shirts and her summer pajamas at night!  Well, if we lived somewhere else in the world where it was actually warm right now, that might be ok....but we don't and it's winter here!!

I finally had to hide all of her short sleeve shirts.  She would go and get Talisha's and Savannah's shirts.  I explained to her that she couldn't wear them because they were not hers (she understood that logic pretty well) however, then she went in Isaiah's room and started wearing his t'shirts!  Ugh!  I guess when you have 3 siblings that are all about the same size, it  makes it very easy to expand your wardrobe!!

Isaiah refuses to wear a coat when we go outside.  In my mind I think to myself, he's a child and can't possibly know how important it is to wear a coat so I will just make him wear it...right?  He seriously throws a fit about wearing it!  It's like I'm asking him to do something terrible!  We go outside without his coat and I say, "Oh boy it's cold out here!  Who wants a jacket?"  "Not me Mom!!  I'm ok!!" I go ahead and start putting it on him and he proceeds to fuss about not needing it, not liking it, etc.  I have even tried 3 other types of jackets, thinking maybe he just doesn't like the one.  Now mind you, this is from the boy that can't go out in the snow and play.  We learned that at an early age.  When his hands or face get cold, he starts screaming like he has just lost a limb!  It's happened 3 times in his life and that has been enough for us to learn that he just can't be out in the cold that long, even if he has mittens/gloves on.  He screams and screams and screams until his hands warm up!  It's not enjoyable!

If anyone has any great ideas, let me know!  I'm open to suggestions!!