How the Mind of a Four Year Old Thinks About Listening

Bella is only 35 days away from being the big number 5.  She is a little spitfire (read stinker), and most days I'm telling her no, stop, and get out of that so much I should just use a recorder.  Sunday as we are leaving the movies, I look at her as she is using the four foot concrete fence as a tight rope and tell her to get down.  She does listen and jumps off as I'm walking back towards her to get onto her if she wasn't going to do as she was told.  It is at this point, as her and I are walking to the van, that I tell her that she needs to start listening better, or she is going to get into trouble.  She looks straight at me and says that she will start listen when she turns 5.  Hurry up 35 days and go quickly, so that Bella will start listening better.  I couldn't help but laugh.  Here is hoping and praying that she keeps her word and starts listening better in 35 more days.