Discipline (Written by Myers)

It's unfortunate that saying, "NO!" while laughing is not an effective method of disciplining a child. I find myself doing that a lot. Owen is a funny little guy even when he's doing bad things. For instance, he has started doing a pelvic thrust as soon as we put him in his car seat, in his mind this makes it impossible to hook him in. It's even funnier because he starts sliding out of the car seat while staring me defiantly in the face; like "what are you going to do now, Dad?" His huge stomach sticking out, funny; the obviously uncomfortable position he's stuck in, funny, his face staring back at me, funny...but also bad. Karen locks him in the seat way more often that I do and is probably well past the point of this being funny.

The other bad thing he almost always does is feed the dogs food from his plate. I'm pretty sure he knows he shouldn't be doing it but that doesn't stop him. He'll look us right in the face with his best smile all while leaning over and putting a piece of waffle in Jack The Dog's mouth. It doesn't help that Jack is immediately pacing around the chair as soon as we put Owen at the table. Again, it's funny...but also bad.

The last one happens all the time so it's not quite as funny anymore. We're sitting on the floor to be on Owen's level but he always wants to be on the couch. He's too small to get up there on his own so what does he do? He uses us as human ladders. He has no problem stepping on our faces to propel himself onto the couch. Of course, once he is up there he just laughs and laughs until we put him back down on the floor.

Other funny things Owen has been doing that are appropriate for laughter:
doing a Frankenstein walk across the room (I know, it's Frankenstein's monster), thinking about and starting the motion to jump on the couch (he might get a centimeter off the ground, it's hard to tell), shaking his head quickly then stopping abruptly while smiling, and a Woody Woodpecker style laugh that I'm pretty sure he only does because he knows it will make us laugh.