Big Bird or Elmo

We tried on Sam’s Halloween costume this afternoon. Of course, after she preens and giggles at herself in the fireplace reflection by the time I got my camera she got shy. She was also probably roasting since I put it on top of her pants and long sleeved shirt.

She has an adoring relationship with my camera. Since I show her the videos on it after I take them, she likes to watch them over and over and over again. We watched this one at least 20 times, at which point I told her it went to sleep. We would wake it up later to watch. And she had a HUGE throw herself down on the floor tantrum. It was pretty funny.

So I left the living room and sat down at my computer telling her that when she was ready to stop crying and be a good girl, we could play. It took a few minutes but she calmed down, as I kept repeating it to her as she was stuck in the living room. 🙂

Later that evening, she hopped on my lap and saw my camera and freaked out for it. We watched the video one time on the computer though (my mistake, I guess) because Justin hadn’t seen it. After that, she had a WORSE meltdown. Wow, it was bad. She was SCREAMING for Elmo. J tried to show her a video on his computer but she wanted ELMO (or, I guess her?). We moved to the living room to distract her and that didn’t work. Screaming, screaming, screaming.

So Justin put her in time out facing the wall in a corner of the dining room. haha – She would sit there screaming and then get up, still screaming, so he would walk over there and tell her firmly to stop crying, etc. etc. He had to do that at least four times.

It’s really funny, in my opinion, I guess… when you finally get a kid (or Sam) to snap out of it. When you ask them, “are you ready to stop crying and be a good girl?” if they stop to take a breathe you just try to take THAT as the assumption they stopped. haha – Then just move along! “Good job! Let’s have a tea party now!” hahaha

We are also trying to do the apologize thing after the time outs. “I’m sorry. Are you sorry? I love you, give me a hug. Now, go give Papa a hug and tell him you are sorry and you love him” And we all hug. Fun stuff.

Go Elmo.