Another rainy day.......we tried not to be to couped up.....so we ran some errands this morning and then this afternoon after lunch we went to Cabela's. We went there for two reasons: 1) to entertain Isabel and show her the animals and the fish in the aquarium and 2) buy a Christmas present for Uncle Shane.
Today she got her first timeout. She was throwing her grapes on the floor and I would tell her no and pick them up and she would laugh. So, after a few times of this happening, I took away her food and I sat her in a chair in the corner of the kitchen and told her she would have a time out and could get up after the timer went off. She gave me big pouty lips and tear filled eyes (but never did cry) and just sat there for 1 minute (I have read numerous spots that the timeouts should be equal in minutes to their age. I just went about my business filling up the dishwasher and ignored her. When the timer went off she got all happy - it was like she completly understood, even though we have never done this before. Anyways, I told her if she was sorry she could give mom a hug and come off the chair. She immediately gave mom a hug and we left the kitchen.
Tomorrow we have a lot of plans, so heopfully she takes a nice good nap in the afternoon. Hopefully since we have several excursions planned she will get some energy out. She really needs to crawl all over the place.
She is really into pushing buttons these days. She turns the receiver on/off and gets her Wiggles CD playing. She turns the TV on. We've been working on turning on/off lights and she gets the pull chain for the ceiling fan light and the push button for some of the lights, but the switches that go up & down confuse her a bit yet. She also likes to ring doorbells. And finally she can be more interactive with her Little Touch Leappad. Since she can push on different pictures to make it do things she is really into it now. We were playing with that today.
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