i adore this child

OK so I know I've been MIA for a while now. More on that later. For now I have a really cute story to get down before I forget it.

We've been playing outside in one of those inflatable swimming pools lately to beat the heat. Julianna constantly throws water out of the pool and I have to fuss at her. Several times today I told her, "one more time and you're going to have to get out for a while." (Yes, I know. Bad mommy for saying "one more time" more than once.)

Anyway, when I finally told her she had to get out for a while for throwing water outside of the pool of course she wouldn't come. I told her that she had until I counted to three to come or she was going to get a spanking. I counted. She didn't budge. I stepped in the pool and popped her and then took her out of the water and made her sit in time-out for a bit. She cried for a minute or two and finally calmed down.

The cat, whom she affectionately calls SI-men, came over and laid beside her. He sympathetically stretched out his chin beside her and she said, "SI-men, be nice to me. I in time out. I not listen to my mama."

It was soooooo adorable I almost died of the extreme cuteness.