How Do You Discipline A One Year Old?

As you may already know (if you've ever been around ANY 14 month old), Anna is quickly approaching the need for discipline! She knows exactly what it means when I tell her "no, no." AND she knows exaclty what is going to happen if (and WHEN) she totally ignores me and does it anyway. Yep, a little hand spank with a firm "NO!" Sometimes she even gives herself a little hand spank as if to let me know that I don't need to.

Well, last night is now in a league of it's own. She insisted on messing with the phone jack (which I wasn't mad about but she doesn't need to mess with the phone jack and I HAVE to be firm with her or else it is useless) so I told her no, no:
"Anna," I said, "NO, NO! Come back over here this second." Awesome I thought as she followed my instructions perfectly! But then do you know what the little rascal did. She got on her hands and knees, very low to the gound (as if I couldn't see her anymore) and proceeded to try and crawl between the chair and the couch. When she got right next to the sofa (where I was sitting) her little head raised up to make sure I wasn't looking. Which of'course I was NOT (at that second). And then, you guessed it, it was down to the floor and off to the phone jack. I said (firmly), "ANNA! NO, NO" and I pulled her up to her feet where she could see my faicial expression (which was trying to be mad) and I pointed to the phone jack and then pointed to her and said (very loudly), "NO!"
Then the little booger grabbed my finger and pulled my hand towards her... and with her eyes squinted and her eyebrows furrowed and her lips poked out like this:



she SPANKED the back of MY hand!
Yes, she spanked ME!

I honestly had no comeback from that. I couldn't help but laugh a little..(and text my mom and call my sister immediately).
She left the phone jack alone for the rest of the night so I guess we both got our points across.
She is such a mess! But, what do you do?

On another note:

Yesterday I let her finger paint. SHE LOVED IT!!! I can't wait for her to get a little bigger and we can play "art school" and do all sorts of fun crafty things!

She was a bit particular at first and wasn't too sure she liked having her fingers messy:



But, then she warmed up to the idea:



And just went for it:



Here are her two masterpieces:


(This one sort of looks like a bird or something... can you see it?)


(Who knows...)

We've been having fun today too. We painted some more (I'm telling you she LOVES it). We both took a long morning nap. We've done some laundry (which means I've done laundry and folded clean clothes and she's taken the folded clothes and dumped them back into the laundry basket... it's an on-going circle). I'm sure we'll get into something fun this afternoon too.

Y'all have a Happy Friday and we'll be back soon!