I’ve been taking a bunch of photos of the kids, some posed and some candids, and for some reason I keep waiting to post them. (I think I’m waiting to build some fancy image browser something-or-other, but I don’t think that will come any time soon.)
So at Kelli’s urging, I have just stuck some photos up on a plain old boring web page for you to look at:
Brian is quite fond of getting treats after meals. Usually if we give him a treat it is after supper, though we will also occasonally give him something small after lunch like a bit of candy. For a while he even asked for a treat every time he finished his breakfast, but we definitely drew the line there.
Sometimes, for whatever reason, we will give him a “big” treat after lunch instead of after supper. Inevitably he will ask for another treat after supper. Of course we tell him something like “you already had your big treat after lunch.” His standard response to this is something like this:
So yesterday night Brian was being pretty wild and we were having a hard time getting him to settle down. He was starting to get to the “hitting and throwing things” stage, so I asked him to go have a time out. Of course he never takes that idea well, so things were starting to escalate a bit.
So, obviously that wasn’t the best calm parent response in the world. But that’s not the point of this story. The high point happened later, after I finally got Brian in on his bed for a time out. After he had been in there for several minutes and had settled down somewhat, he called to me and said something that had me laughing uncontrollably: