Time out for Mommy...

So the other day, Amélie, dad and mom were having dinner. Mommy was done with her plate of pasta, and to entice Amélie to eat a bit more, took a pasta from her place. That led to a huge growl of disapproval from Amélie with finger pointing and big 'no no no' screams from Mademoiselle!

To her rescue, dad said 'no no no mommy'... Facing such tough disapproval, mommy asked 'mommy time out?' Dad and Amélie agreed, and here you have mom on a time out, sitting on Amélie's time out bench... Once dad released mommy from her time out, mommy said 'sorry', dad said 'that's ok', and mommy and dad hugged before coming back to the table.

Amélie was very puzzled by this role reversal, and observed the whole scene with a strange look on her face. The little wheels seemed to be spinning in her head and she all of a sudden had that look of mischief on her face... When mommy came back to her chair, she first pointed at her pasta to entice mommy to take more pasta from her plate. But mommy said she learned her lesson and that she wouldn't take more pasta from Amélie's plate... Given that reaction, Amélie took a pasta and tried to give it to mommy to eat it, visibly so that she could send her mom back to time out... Didn't work, but boy did we all have a good laugh!