Trouble Jr.

Can't you just see the trouble this one gets into?  Mazie is my curious risk taking independent thinker.  Yes, she is me reincarnated.  She's just adorable though, isn't she? (Mazie happens to look a lot like me, if I do say so myself).  She loves to snuggle and hates the word "No".  Right now we (Kevin and I) are trying to get her to control her emotions (displeasure) better, but its tough, especially for me because I have both PJ and Sebastian vying for attention, its hard to stay tough and focus.  Now that I am thinking about it - she may realize this and be using it to her advantage.  For example, the other night I was putting Sebastian to bed sitting in the rocker feeding him and I had her sitting next to me, which was fine, until she started wiggling around and Sebastian started wiggling and I was trying to make a phone call to my MIL.  I ended up booting Mazie from the chair, which resulted in a melt down - and it was sad, since I knew she just wanted to sit next to me, but Sebastian needed his time and needed to be fed.  However, she was freaking out so much that I needed to discipline her and put Sebastian down and told her that she needed to stop or she was going to bed.  Well, she didn't stop, so I started to get her in her Pjs - part of this process required changing her diaper - at this point, having my full attention she says "potty" - so it puts me in a quandry - do I say no and continue to put her to bed, or let her go b/c I don't want to discourage the potty use.  I decided to let her use the potty.  She goes pee pee, which now makes me think "Can I really put her to bed (i.e. punish her), right after she used the potty?  Can she make the connection the putting to bed is for her temper tantrum that happened five minutes ago?"  I decide probably not, so I give her another chance and tell her I have to feed Sebastian and she can't sit next to me, and if she cries she's going to bed.  I sit down and feed Sebastian and she comes in the room and wants up and I tell her she can get on my legs, which makes her happy.   I suppose in the end we both got what we wanted, I was able to peacefully feed Sebastian and she got some mommy time.  Did I mention that while this was going with Mazie, I had PJ watching and telling me "mommy, I'm being good"  (Which I acknowledged and thanked him for) And then after I get settled, and Mazie calmed down he decides that he's going to push her out of the way and close the door on her.  I swear, can I catch a break?