Taking Candy From a Baby Twice?

OK. So I took candy from a baby, twice! in one day. It was pathetic. It happened like this...

I am in the bedroom studying and I decide to check on Brooklyn,

my 4-year-old (yes, she is still my baby). I found her playing in her room eating her third sucker for the day. While I was brain-slaving away, typing reports, she decides to sneak into the reward jar and help herself to her third sucker.

This normally wouldn't be a big deal, but the rule is that you can only have one sucker a day and I already turned my head with the second sucker. While I am not a big stickler to the rules, I decided that 3 is more than enough and I need to teach her a couple of lessons. So, I take the sucker away and watch pitifully as she throws herself onto the floor all the while trying to explain that she shouldn't sneak things while I am busy and that she knows she should only have one sucker...Bladda, Bladda, Bladda. The kicking gets harder and the crying more angry.

The overwhelming feeling of being a bully is starting to kick in, nevertheless, I need to stick to my guns right?

So I set the sucker down on the counter not wanting to throw it away and waste it. (I think this is where I was hoping she would be smarter by sneaking it again and hiding to finish it.)

So as I am checking my blog (that everyone reads but only the faithful one comments on) a little while later, sure enough she walks in with the sucker in her mouth...

Now, had she been a little smarter I wouldn't have had to take candy from a baby twice in one day!