The Baby has had a sudden explosion of new behaviors since my mom arrived. New words, new games and a new willfulness that is both irritating and hysterically funny at the same time.
She had her first “Time Out” today after having a melt-down at the trechery and injustice of NOT BEING ALLOWED TO WALK OUTSIDE INTO THE LAND OF MUSH, DIRT AND BUGS WITH ONLY SOCKS ON!
“We have to put shoes on, first”, I told her. Screams. Screeeeeeeeeeeeams!!
“Honey. Chill. Let’s just put shoes on.” Then she dumped purposefully her snack bowl of crackers.
That was it. I threw a blanket on the floor in her room. Plopped her on it and told her she was in Time Out.
Screeeeeeeeams. Screeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaams.
Kory comes to find out who is flinging battery acid on the baby.
“She’s in time out”, I tell him.
He is totally on board. In fact, since we saw Jon & Kate do it with their kids, we’ve been intregued by the process. I never really did it with The Teen.
She saw Kory and got up and started walking to him and he told her, “No! You sit back down in Time Out.”
AND SHE (WHILE SOBBING) WALKED BACK OVER THE BLANKET AND SAT DOWN.
We were floored…. my mom, Kory and I all clamped our hands over our mouths to keep from laughing because it was so sweet and funny and kind of heartbreaking and we were oddly proud of our baby… our little girl… walking herself to her own punishment. An entire 2 minutes on a purple flower blanket on the floor.