Clean Freak-To-Be & Time-Out Thinker.

A few days ago I took Jadon out to a sports park nearby. They had a huge playground area and what's really nice about it is they put a huge (and I mean huge) awning to shade the whole area. Well luckily when we went, there weren't many kids so that meant that Jadon wouldn't feel to reserved about playing. He's the type of kid to look around and observe his surroundings. It takes him a little bit to warm up to playing. Eventually he started to play and I told him to go down some slides. He would look at one slide and say that he was "'cared" to go down then I told him to go down on another slide. He looked at it and said "This one is too dirty!" *Smacked my forehead* It wasn't that dirty. It had black pen marks on the slide itself. Apparently he has developed Fiona's compulsion for cleanliness.

Lastnight Fiona was telling me how she had to put him in timeout. He of course bawled. She put him in the corner of our downstair's bathroom and told him that when he stopped crying he could come out. She said that he just cried and cried and all of a sudden he snapped out of it. She went to check on him and asked if he was done crying and he said he was. Then later on she put him in another timeout. He cried and cried. Fiona checked on him and asked him if he was done crying. He stopped, thought about it, responded with a "no", and went back to crying again. What a crack up.