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Funny Things Kids Do, Part 7

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By marydalene

This photo almost needs no explanation, but Sarah was reading a book and I was sitting opposite her on the other couch. When I looked up a while later, she had shifted to this position. Silly kid.

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Since I’ve brought Ryan home from the hospital, Sarah has been very interested in watching me feed him. The other day she brought out her rolled up blanket and said she was going to feed Ryan too. (The blanket is Ryan.) She calmly sat next to me on the couch and lifted up her shirt just a bit and placed her “baby” on her tummy. She fed him for about 10 seconds and then told me “he’s done eating.” She then burped him and went into her room (where the diaper changing pad is located) and “changed his diaper.” All and all, a very sweet older sister.

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Another funny story involving Sarah dealt with “Bird.” But before, some backstory so you can understand why I think this is funny.

Sarah’s timeout corner is in the kitchen. It is a corner that has no distractions by our sliding glass door to the deck. Most of the time when she has been told that she has to go to timeout, she will do it on her own, crying the whole way. If she is being especially naughty we have to take her over to the corner (but that hasn’t happened in a while). After she is done, we usually talk about why she was in timeout, and I get down on her eye level before we talk, often sitting on a chair or a stool. We end with a hug and an “I love you.” And now, for the rest of the story.

I’m not sure who Bird is or what he did, but he had to go to timeout. Sarah took him over to timeout, and made him stand in the corner (she was narrating this aloud, which is how I figured out what she was doing), and then went over to sit on the kitchen stool. When Bird’s timeout was over, she called him over to the stool and talked to him, asking him why he was in timeout and telling him why he was being naughty (I don’t remember the reason, and she may have only said he was naughty and in trouble – that is often her response to us when we ask her). She then ended with giving him a kiss and telling him that she loved him. The funniest part was the intonation she used while doing her narration. It was almost exactly how I talk to her after she has been in timeout. She makes me laugh.

P.S. If you are wondering about the scab by her left eye in the last two pictures (which I just took for fun the other day, and now immortalized in these photos), she was coming up the stairs and hit her head just right on our railing. Fortunately the wound is fairly shallow and didn’t need anything other than a butterfly bandage and a Band-Aid for a day. She gave herself a little black eye as well. I’d better start saving up for the cast she is going to put herself into sooner or later. Good grief.

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  1. BarbaraAugust 6, 2012 at 9:00 PM

    Great story, and great pictures. Your kids are sure cute and fun.

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