Stuborness continues

I thought that once Blake was out of the Terrible Twos his stubbornness would start to dwindle.  However, it seems to be only getting worse.  Here are a few of the stories typical of Blake's stubbornness.  He decides to exert his independence about the craziest things.  

Blake was given a bath when he did not want one.  To show his protest he took off his pajamas, dug his clothes out of the dirty laundry, and put them back on.  He got the shorts on backwards and the shirt inside out and upside down.  The pictures are not very good because he would not hold still for a picture.   This scenario is actually not an isolated incident.

Blake would not get his shoes on before church because he wanted to wear his flipflops.  He snuck the flip flops in the car.  We took him into church without shoes, but brought his church shoes with us.  He fell asleep during sacrament meeting and we made the mistake of not putting on his church shoes while he slept.  He woke up in time for his nursery class and we told him he needed to put on his church shoes to go to class.  He was pretty stubborn that he wanted to wear his flip flops and started to make a scene disturbing the adult sunday school class.  I was not willing to have him hang out with me for my classes, so I gave in and let him wear his flip flops to nursery.  I guess we lost that one.

Blake is stubborn about wanting to use our phone to play with.  He likes to let everyone know that he wants to play phone.  When we were at church Matt pulled out his phone briefly.  Blake saw it and wanted to play it.  He began to beg and whine and as he gradually got louder Matt took him out to a room to help him practice sitting reverently.  He resisted for a while, then finally gave in and calmed down.  He came back with Matt with his arms folded and tears in his eyes, but being the stubborn little guy that he is, he sat down and immediately asked again for the phone.  He quickly got louder and headed out again with Matt.  This time he came back asleep in Matt's arms.

The kitchen towel fell on the floor after Blake used it, so I picked it up.  However, Blake wanted it to stay on the floor, so he pulled it off the oven door handle and threw it on the floor again.  He did it several times so we let it sit on the floor for a while and took him away from the area.  Hours later, when he came back to the kitchen and saw it back on the handle he threw it on the floor again.  He obviously was not going to settle for a towel on the handle, so Matt picked it up and put it up high on the cabinets so he couldn't reach it.  He was determined to get it and started climbing the cabinets.  So very stubborn.

Our air conditioner was not working so our repairman (which happens to be the bishop of our ward) came to fix it.  He showed up right when we were getting home from school so I got out of the car quickly to open the door and I left my purse in the car.  Blake was in one of his grouchy moods so he was upset when I went back out to the car to get my purse.  He said I couldn't get my purse.  I brought it in and forgot about it.  About a half hour later the bishop let me know he needed to get a part at the store to be able to fix the AC, so he opened the front door to leave and there was my purse thrown out the front door.  I brought it in and Blake was mad that I did so he threw it out again.  Blake was determined not to give up and would not let me bring it in.  Brayden had the idea to go out the back door and run around the house to get my purse and bring it through the back door.  However, as Brayden was coming back around the house Blake saw him and wanted to go outside.  When he opened the door and saw the purse he was not happy.  He got it, went through the house and threw it out the front door again.  Luckily he was distracted and forgot about the purse and I was able to bring it inside and keep it in before the bishop came back.

Blake wanted some ranch with his pizza so my sister Chantelle poured some on his plate.  However, he wanted to do it himself.  He scooped the ranch off the plate and onto the table with a spoon and then proceeded to pour it himself.

Blake knows how to be stubborn.

Another day Blake wanted the whole loaf of french bread and not just a slice.  We have to choose our battles.

Blake very regularly does not want to get ready for church.  These are just a few examples of his day to day.  We love the little guy, but hopefully the stubborn streak eases soon.