Her purple umbrella

Not everything that Nina does is naughty. Besides the daily accidents we've had to clean up over the past couple of weeks, Nina has been pretty darn good. Of course we have some power struggles, temper tantrums, name calling and sneaky, suspicious behavior, but she is toning it down quite a bit. I searched the archives for some good behavior pictures of Nina. I liked these. Our old neighbor gave Nina a little purple umbrella. She wanted to use it all the time, but I usually told her to wait until it rained. That day finally came and Nina's reaction was priceless. When she saw the rain, a look of excitement mixed with panic came over her face. She froze for just an instant then rushed to her room to retrieve her umbrella. This was one happy girl: