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Fall Fun

Other than the current MSU football score, it has been a pretty great weekend so far! Last night we had our first family movie night with Leah. We watched How to Train Your Dragon and had "sbejjie treats," or special treats. Leah watched the whole thing and LOVED it. Today we've had some fall leaf fun, some arts 'n crafts time, some football watching, and we're about to enjoy the beef burgundy stew that's been cooking in the crock pot all day. Mmmm. Practicing her trick-or-treat face. She is singing about climbing in this video if you can't quite make it out over the swishing!

Time Out

Today, about an hour before dinner, Leah wanted a snack. It would have been her third or fourth snack of the afternoon, actually. She she opened up the cupboard and was digging around finding all the items that had the highest sugar content. I closed the cupboard doors and told her it was almost dinner time, so no snack right now. I expected her to throw a fit, but to my surprise she didn't! How wonderful! "Mommy! Go my woom!" she said. I thought she was all excited to read a story or play with some toys in her bedroom. So she drags me there by my pant leg, points to her bed and says, "Mama, sit* down! Sit down!" I was just about to ask what book she wanted to read and then she says, "Time owd mama, time owd." Then, she closed the door and left. I sat there with my mouth hanging open thinking, DID MY ALMOST-TWO-YEAR-OLD REALLY JUST GIVE ME A TIME OUT?! A moment later she came back in. "Aw done time owd mama, aw done." And she grabb