The Terrifically Terrible Threes

Do these pictures depict orneriness? I sure hope so, because that is real life, people!  Maiyas favorite thing to do right now, is to dress up in a million different outfits per day.  I really should lock up her closet and drawers!  Her favorite accessories are her Sunday tights (which I have a hard time keeping without holes... good thing it is getting warmer, so she won't need them for church).  And she loves to wear socks, but not on her feet.  She likes to wear them on her hands.  They are her gloves. She then will ask me to turn on Pandora for her so she can dance to Disney songs.  And of course I oblige, because frankly, the wrath of Maiya scares me.  ;)  

A week ago or so, Maiya got into my nail polish and made a huge mess all over her hands and toes.  I disciplined her accordingly, and explained that I needed to help her, and I put the polish high up. Well, yesterday I caught her again in the bathroom with nail polish everywhere!  All over my decorative towels!  In her hair! Oh man!  My friend recently told me that for most children the hardest ages to raise them come at age 3 and age 13.  So, now I will live in fear of age 13!!! 

Okay, now that we got some of the terrible out of the way, we can talk about some of the terrific. :)  Miss Maiya is such a great big sister.  She loves her sister Aftyn, they are already such great friends.  She is so interested in helping her that she can change her diaper with moderate help from me.  She picks out all of her clothes for her, she throws her diapers away for me.  She has been such a big help to me.  Anytime I ask her to do something for me that involves helping Aftyn she does it right away.  The other day I was burping Aftyn, and Maiya swatted my hand away and explained that I was doing it wrong, banged on Aftyns back a couple of times, and Bam!!! It worked like a charm.  I will take the bad with the good :)  I love my big girl Maiya. 

She even put 'gloves' on Aftyn's hands!  They really play well together already!

By the way, these pictures were within 10 min. of each other, see how she is wearing different tights, and different skirts?