Saying "No"

For the past week or so, Vivian's personality is starting to really show.  She will let you know if she doesn't want to play with something by tossing it across the room.  Cries when things aren't going her way.  Knows the word "no," but still does what she wants.

  

Since she's been crawling she gets into everything.  Whether its Brody's dog bowl...which I had to hide from her...going straight to the outlets, crawling towards her box fan that's on  and wanting to stick her finger in the holes (thankfully, I've caught her just in the nick of time), chewing on power cords.  Speaking of power cords, I was vacuuming the other day and she was sitting on the floor watching.  I turned my back to her to vacuum and turned back around and child was gnawing away on the cord.  She also likes to play with my power cord to my breast pump.  

I tell her "no" and she just looks at me and goes back to what she was doing.  If I continue to repeat "no" this is what I get.

  

In this case, she kept sticking her mouth onto the knob and biting away.  I repeated "no baby" multiple times.  She looked at me and went back to her knob.  After saying "no" for the 3rd time this is what I get, crying with the saddest little face. Sorry little girl, I don't want you to knock out the two little teeth that you have.

I know I will be saying "no" to her until at least her freshman year of college.  I'm dreading the mouth back.  I pray that she will learn to be respectful towards her parents and not have attitude.  Otherwise baby girl, Daddy is going to get a belt after you!