"I don't need help!"

Why are those words from a three-year-old often so scary.  Annie had to give her first talk on Sunday so we spent all morning preparing.  The topic was Latter Day Prophets Help Us Choose the Right so we spent the morning talking about how President Monson helps us.  I had all sorts of good ideas, but Annie was sure she wanted to start with, "President Monson profers us..." and then some more nonsensical dither.  Anyway, I convinced her to give the talk my way in primary and then she could do it on her own for FHE the next day.  When it came time to give the talk, Annie confidently stood up to the podium, pulled out her scriptures (actually a copy of Crime and Punishment), laid them on the pulpit then loudly whispered to me, "I don't need help!".  I honestly was terrified because once Annie gets something in her head that she wants to do on her own, it takes a real fight to get her to back down.  And I didn't want to have that fight in front of the whole primary.  Luckily, Landon walked in at that moment and I motioned him up to the front.  Since, for whatever reason, Annie will take instruction from Landon, she gave a version of the talk that actually made sense.  And, I must say, she did a fantastic job. 

Here are the pictures she drew for her talk.  They both are of President Monson.  #2 is a picture of President Monson doing plie's.  Of course.