The other day, the kids were playing outside on the swing set (you know, before the March blizzard of '09), and Ellis saw Marley pushing Lucy down while they were up on the slide. In what I think was a stroke of disciplining genius, Ellis made Marley have a timeout that involved writing down all the reasons why pushing her little sister off the slide was a bad idea. Here's what she came up with:
1. Bekus Lucy will haf too go too the Hosobl.
2. Bekus Lucy will hav a brokin lag.
3. Bekus Lucy will be hrt.
4. Bekus Lucy will kri.
5. Bekus she will be sad.
She had written each reason on a separate little sheet of paper, and then she stapled (and taped) them all together in a small booklet for our reading pleasure.
