God Makes Kids Cute So Adults Don't Kill Them...

Another Collinism: Collin and I were having a conversation this morning while I was getting dressed and I don't know what I told him I couldn't do but he told me "Oh come on Mommy, you can do it!" with just enough attitude to make me laugh hysterically.

I took him to the park today to feed the ducks with Emma. There was only one goose there and it had one leg, it was sad. Collin and Emma fed that goose about 5 hot dog rolls and then I said we were out of bread and it was time to go eat some cookies. It took Collin about half a second to put two and two together and ask to feed the goose some cookies.

I tried a new discipline tactic tonight. Collin has this really annoying fascination with Sadie's water bowl and if he's not putting his toys in it, he's dumping it all over my pergo floor. There's a couple panels that should really be replaced because of this. Anyway he did this several times yesterday and I was at my whits end by the time he did it for the third time tonight. No matter how much I yell at him, put him in time out, make him clean it up, or make him feel guilty, he still loves to play in it and thinks it's hysterically funny when I get mad about it. The third time he decided to dump the bowl tonight I happened to be standing right there and was able to intercept the bowl mid-dump. However I still had to clean up the floor and I was so furious that without really thinking about it, I took the rest of the bowl and dumped it over Collin's head. He was absolutely shocked at first and then pissed. He does NOT like to have water poured over his head. Washing his hair at bath time is a royal pain in the rear end. He stood there and cried and then went and told Daddy that Mommy dumped water on his head. I think Tim was a little annoyed at me for doing this but I had to clean the floor anyway, what difference did a little more water make? So far, Collin hasn't gone near the water bowl and this happened at least 2 hours ago. It's currently 10:00 and he's still awake watching the Ravens game. He doesn't look like he's even remotely tired. We're hoping that if we let him stay up tonight maybe we can sleep in a little bit tomorrow. I'll still have to get up and feed Nicholas but he'll go back to sleep for a few more hours afterwards and so will I. What's the craziest thing you've ever done to discipline your kids?