Monday, December 22, 2008

Effective Discipline 101




Have I mentioned Nathan's stubborn streak? Well he has one and a temper to go with it. Kind of a "My way or the highway" guy. Now that he is old enough to understand the relationship between behavior and consequences, we decided that a form of discipine should be put into action. We chose time outs in the pack and play which is set up at the foot of our bed. As you can tell from the pictures, there is a real negative association with being in the time out crib :) It has become the latest fort. Today the Elmo chairs were added in as well as snack time. Back to the drawing board!

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Winter...

Winter has arrived in Iowa! Here are some snapshots of what we have been up to...(sorry they are in reverse order)


Making the first snowman of the season.


Nathan looks thrilled, doesn't he!?


Tessa is thrilled!



Nathan and his "guys." He spends hours putting lego people on a car-type object and taking them off again. If possible, they all need to have a hat on. At one time, one guy was lacking a head but since the hat still worked, he was okay with it.


Bonding time before bed. Just pretend you don't see our almost two year old still drinking out of a bottle.