What should be a happy post, is not....

*Warning....This is not a mushy/happy update. I'm being totally honest & open here.....*

So, just when we think things are going well, and decide to take the girls to get ice cream, they act BAD!  We're talking with another family in McD's and Hope decides it's time to leave.  She walks out the door and down the stairs.  So we get up. She then proceeds to keep walking. You have to cross the entrance and exit of hotel which is  busy with cars getting back to the hotel.  Almost got hit 1 time. She was clueless.  She gets through the lobby and almost the elevators before we can catch up to her.  I take her hand and won't let it go. She's laughing.  This kind of behavior from Hope, leaving us and walking far ahead of us and not stopping when we say stop, is a daily occurrence.  Both of our guides have told her to stay with us. She understands, but does not listen.  

Then Maggie is STOMPING through the lobby because it's loud and she thinks it's funny.  We tell her to stop. She laughs.  Bill goes to get me a Starbucks and she follows. We tell her "NO, get in elevator with me" She refused. So Bill walks her in, she stomps while laughing and then splashes ice cream sundae all over Bill & elevator.  He takes it and walks out. She throws her spoon at him and laughs.  

yeah, we're pretty upset right now.  So I got them to the room, gave them their PJ's. Said "no bath, no shampoo" and told them to get dressed. They did. They are in bed now. Maggie is crying. She knows we are mad.  

I'm glad she is pouting/crying because it means she understands.  It's 7:20 and we are putting them to bed. After a few minutes of us calming down, we kissed them goodnight. I do not want them going to bed thinking we are mad at them. But I do want them to understand that their behavior does have consequences.  

Here are photos BEFORE the bad behavior. I can promise you this....no McD sundae's for a while if this is how they act after having some ice cream.....

Please continue to pray. Pray that we can parent these girls in a  way that they will understand.  Pray for our sanity because the laughing at us when we are trying to lay down the rules etc is just getting to us now.  Thanks!