Tantrums and More Tantrums

Ciarrah has been throwing quite a few tantrums. Nothing we did would seem to work, we tried sitting her in time out, spanking her (not very hard), even just putting her in her room. Well we finally figured out a solution. We recently moved into a 2 story house, well, we have found out that if you put Ciarrah on the bottom step she sits there. She knows that the sooner she stops crying the sooner she can get up, but she only sits there for 2 minutes, cause I was told only 1 minute per there age. I would have never thought this would work. She doesnt like the step, but she will sit there, once you get her to stop crying, we make her apoligize for what she did wrong. Then she seems to be all better.

On to a happier note, since we have moved, we now have a yard, where Ciarrah can go outside and play. Well yesterday we went outside so she could play in the pool. She had a lot of fun. She also has a play kitchen outside as well. So some days she cant decide what she wants to play with. In the mix of her playing outside she decided that I needed to get my legs wet, so she started pouring water on them, apparently they are to white, I mean yes I know they are pretty white, but still. LOL.

She has been having a hay day with our puppy, Jack, as well. We really missed having him around. When we were living at the apartment, they wanted us to pay a really big pet deposit, and we knew we wouldnt get it back, so we were leaving him at a friends house til we got moved, now that we are moved all is well. Ciarrah and Jack play together for hours, they run around the house. It is so funny to see. When Ciarrah goes outside Jack usually does too. Except for when we are playing outside, he thinks her pool is for drinking lol.
I guess that is really all the news for now. We are all doing well. Well we are heading back to Nebraska for about a month in September, which we really cant wait, since it will be the last trip I get to do til after Cooper is born.