time out

A 1 year old's version of time out....
A two year old's version of time out...
These two yesterday were in fine form...two partners in crime. By 9 am I had chased and removed them from more situations than I care to remember...they were in a word stinkers! In the time it took me to change a diaper (1-2 minutes tops) they had emptied a cupboard, apparently Rosie needed a place to hide.... Rosie managed to get a loaf of bread and proceeded to eat a bite out of every slice, in the time it took for me to get dinner out of the freezer in the basement...Yahaira is quick to join in the "fun" and just as quick to bail when she see's me coming, leaving Rosie to face the drummer alone... and then Yahaira seems so puzzled when she too get's in trouble..looking at me as if to say "what I wasn't standing there" ok does she really believe I am so clueless? After one event, (oh these are events nothing is simple with them) I put them both in time out, only to trip over Rosie as I attempted to clean up the mess they had created...thus the high chair...where she is confined for the moment. Of course she was more upset with me when no food came her way than she was about sitting in the time out. Yahaira, she is just the drama queen, she is quite good, don't you think? Eventually as the day wore on I just wondered if I could just put myself in time out...perhaps that would work better.