an unsuspecting victim

yesterday, david and i had the chance to talk at church. his mom offered to come and watch miss jenna, which meant i had to sit on the stand. i could only kinda see jenna from my spot on the stand, but i couldn't hear her during all the quiet parts. she didn't start fussing until i was up to talk. she saw me and wanted me. isn't that sweet?! i love my kid. i survived speaking, and am glad to be over that for awhile. david did great. jenna broke down again during the closing prayer, so i left the stand right after to comfort her.
grandma said she walked around a little in the foyer during sacrament. she began to do the same during sunday school. a small group of moms were hanging out in the gym, so jenna and i joined. i was able to talk to my newly assigned visiting teaching companion. she is ready to have #3 in just a few month and she has a little one that is just 2 months older that jenna. we were talking about how her little girl is pretty feisty and she doesn't know what she's going to do with an infant. just than she walked over to my tottering jenna and went in for a hug. because jenna is new to this walking thing, her balance is not so great, so i held her up while this little girl came up and gave jenna a hug. awwwh- how sweet- right!? WRONG! she then went in for a kiss- with her mouth opened. she left marks on my sweet jenna's chubby check! jenna was confused. she looked at me and began wailing. poor thing! she was super loud and very upset- huge tears rolling off her face- that i took her outside. she was able to calm down after about 3 minutes, but still has a mark today. poor girl. i think we both handled ourselves very well. the other mom was super apologetic, and really, chances are that she was going to be bit sooner or later (i would have just wished for later). dave's commentary on the whole thing is that we need to teach her to bite so that she can defend herself (or heck, grow top teeth for that matter). i say absolutely not! can you imagine being the parent of the 'biter'? i would much rather jenna just push mean kids down- all kids push right? kids are rarely labeled as 'pushers', but 'biter' or 'face-smasher' could plague her all during her nursery years. so we are working on self-defense after this incident. she is lucky to get lots of practice with ella around.... (case in point: i just looked up to find ella prepping to sit on a crawling jenna!)