She wants what she wants when she wants it....

Lately I have been very busy managing, from apartments flooding to hot water going out, it just seems like it's been one thing after the other... actually that exactly what it has been. :) So the night that the hot water went out in our building guess who wanted to take a bath! Payton would not take no for an answer, so being the loving parents that we are, we gave her a bath. I filled up the bath (maybe 2 inches high) & started boiling water using all 3 of the pots below.Payton being the patient 2 year that she is waited until the bath was warm enough... NOT!!! So after she had a complete conniption fit Donald stuck her in the bath. She stood there & cried (because it was so cold!) & Donald told her, 'okay then lets get out' so she squatted down. She cried again as she hovered just barely over the water. Donald would tell her it's time to get out & she'd get in a little farther. Every time a new section of body would touch the water she'd start crying again. Her toes, feet & hands were purple & she was obviously miserable but Payton was going to take a bath no matter what. Can anyone say STUBBORN!
This is all happening while I'm heating up water on the stove. I'd pour the hot water on the opposite end of where Payton was & Donald would move her down to that end after mixing it it a little. We did this 5 or 6 times before Donald said that it was warm enough to start washing her.
As you can see she is starting to wash herself & she wants to do it. She is getting to be such a big girl. Now if only she'd change her own diaper, then we'd really be in business!