Seventeen

The whole family went to run some errands the other day. When it was time to leave, Jael refused to take someones hand to cross the parking lot. We told her she had to either hold our hand, or Daddy was going to pick her up and carry her across the parking lot. Instead of choosing she crossed her arms across her chest and pouted. So Aaron picked her up and hauled her across the parking lot. She was not happy... to say the least (in her defense we did discover later she was running a low grade fever). We get in the car and she's still pretty ticked. We get them all straped in and we're headed out when she looks at us and says "Yeah well, when I'm seventeen I'll cross the street all by myself." Yup. That'll show us.