This picture displays the little bit of 'attitude' we've been seeing in Gracie the past month or so.  I'm quite certain she has the temperament of a pre-teen, and that combined with her stubborn nature (which she did not inherit from me) is making for some comical, but concerning situations.  In this picture she is saying something along the lines of, "Hey guys, come heeereee!"

Well, I wasn't too concerned with this trait until yesterday.  We were playing with some friends at the splash pad at Desert Ridge.  Everyone was having a great time, and two 'big boys', probably 7 years old, were splashing each other.  Grace did not agree with their behavior and marched over to them, shook her finger up at them and said, "Boys, hey, don't splash!  Don't splash big boys."  

They were twice her size and were not amused by this.  One of them said something along the lines of, "don't tell us what to do, baby."

She wouldn't stop!  She followed them around shaking that little finger and yelling, "stop splashing!"  I actually had to get involved and remove her from the situation before a fight broke out between my two-year old and an unamused poor little second grader.