Sam, being a typical 21 month old, does stuff all the time he knows he is not supposed to do and when he gets caught he immediately stops and stares at me with his guilty face.
Today he was sitting in daddy's chair with the baby monitor in his hand. He wanted to get it all morning and it finally got the best of him. I was getting snack ready and he saw his chance. When he heard me coming he looked at me, climbed or rather jumped down out of the chair and was making a beeline to put the monitor back where he got it.
Although it is clear from his response to getting caught that he knew he wasn't supposed to have the monitor, this is not when he put himself in timeout. He only puts himself in timeout when he hurts Megan.
He is constantly stepping on her, knocking her over, crawling over her, etc. She is a tough little one and for the most part isn't even phased by what he is doing; but every once in a while he will actually make her cry and his response is to run and sit in the timeout chair.
Megan was extremely tired today because she was awake from 10:30 until at least 3:30 (the last time I checked on her). She wasn't unhappy she just wasn't sleeping. Anyway, when she is overtired she has less patience with Sam. He was brushing her hair and she didn't want him messing with her so she would move and then when he didn't get the message she pushed him. I told him that he needed to quit brushing her hair and to brush the baby doll's hair, or my hair, etc. This worked for a while but he really, really likes to brush Megan's hair so eventually he went back over to brush her hair and when she moved he fell on her and she hit her head. She started crying and he put himself in timeout. I made him give her kisses to tell her he was sorry and I told him he wasn't in timeout but he wouldn't get up for several minutes.
He loves her so much and he felt bad that he made her cry.
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