Feb 21, 2001

Hall Pass

For a little background so the story makes sense, Liza insists on sleeping with a billion toys, and then gets out of her bed to play with other toys. Some nights she is up for and hour and a half to two hours. So in efforts to get her to stay in her bed one night I told her that if she got out of bed I got to come in and pick a toy from her bed and take it with me. She understood what I said and stayed in her bed. This worked for two nights. Then on the third night Brent went in and took a toy and she tried to bargain with him to get him to take a toy that she didn’t want as much. He took the bargain. Then she stayed in her bed. On the fourth night, mean old mom went in twice and wouldn’t strike a deal with her so she cried about it. But we were happy with our success thus far because she was going to sleep faster and wasn’t up and down so much. Then on the fifth night she threw us a curve ball, she came to the door with a payment. I heard her calling me and I could tell that she was at the door, when I came around the corner she was waving a toy out a small crack in the door. “Mommy, take a car” then later she called Brent, “Daddy, take a lamb.” A “Hall pass” If you will. She just letting us know that she was up and she chose what we could take as her punishment. It was too funny. Quite a character!

Comments:

Tobie:

What a little smarty pants. She has an answer for everything. FYI Just so everyone knows, I voted on the pole and I voted for a girl and the pole says that I voted more then one. SO it is inaccurate. Also wanted to let you all know that the stow away that went to Lybia with Grandpa also got left in SLC when grandpa brought it to Liza, then Brents mom sent it to us here in Philly, and she is, as I am writing this flying to Iowa, Liza put her in daddys suit case:-) Comments: Grandma Tiffany: It should be collecting air miles!!