Hallie is no doubt a passionate and determined child. Whatever she’s doing, she’s full heartedly into it. This no doubt leads to much frustration in our household. She will be determined to get a pair of socks and shoes on by herself. At first, she’s pretty good about it, taking her time to try and figure out why it’s not working out for her. Once her short amount of patience is exceeded frustration and screaming kick in.

Case in point: Hallie and I have been spending a lot of time at the piano. About a 1/2 hour every day we sing songs together out of the children’s hymnbook. I cherish this time with her. We’ll sit side by side singing Book of Mormon stories and it gives me warm fuzzies. Hallie enjoys this time so much that I often catch her during the day sitting at the piano singing songs by herself. I caught her one day and thought I would record it…watch her with the page of the book, just a little glimpse of a frustrated two year old…