Fun with P & D's gifts!

Audrey has been enjoying her sit-and-spin for several months now. It does often end up in "jail" as Eric calls it (behind the baby gate) since Audrey prefers it as a "stand-and-spin". Oh how she cries and cries when it has to go into jail. She was tempted to stand-and-spin today but not when she heard the magic words -

Time out.

She has, over the course of less than 24 hours, learned how bad time out is. We started it on Saturday, and Eric was much more firm than I. Bad, bad, mom. Eric even had her facing the corner, standing. I couldn't even watch, mostly because I was laughing so hard when I realized he had her facing the corner. Anyway, I can now just say "time out", and she immediately redirects herself. Who wants to risk being able to play on the sit-and-spin?

Since it was so beautiful this afternoon, we broke out Audrey's ATV. We had stupidly allowed her to use this - albeit briefly - inside, but it's been in the basement waiting for warmer weather since then. She LOVED it. She couldn't believe that she had full control. She just absolutely loved it and the look on her face - surprise, then giddiness - was priceless! Eric showed her the button to press to go, and she signed "please" for it to keep going...