Abby's had a lot of
Posted by: Liz | From: January 29, 2004
Abby's had a lot of extra stuff in her life lately that she's been giving away and each time she goes to offer it around, I jump up and grab it like the greedy little packrat I am. Springform pan? I'll take it! Extra Bust subscription? Me me! (that just came, actually--thanks!) Yoga tape? Give it here! The yoga tape I thought would be fun for getting in the stray workout here and there and also for introducing it to my friends who have expressed interest in starting up. I thought J would be a good test run, so we rearranged the living room and whipped out the old yoga mat and got to work. Or tried to anyway--it seems Max is in love with the yoga mat. He ran over and plopped down right in the middle of it and wouldn't budge. I kicked him off, but it was his long lost best friend and he had to be on top of it at all times, running right back and plopping down again each time. This didn't work out so well when you're trying to, say, actually use the mat, so we put him in opposite jail. Jail being when he won't leave you alone when you're cooking and he is sequestered in a closed off room. Opposite jail is when we submit him to the horror of locking ourselves in a room and giving him the run of the apartment. He doesn't like jail, opposite or not, and always makes a big production with the yowling and pawing at the door and such. But last night, opposite jail was NOT OKAY. He immediately started wailing and we ignored him while we did our warrior ones. The wailing got louder through the next part of the video, and there was a small racket in the kitchen. Finally, the yowling got so deep and guttural, I went out to check on him. Well, I think opposite jail in combination with separation from his best buddy, Yoga Mat, really did it in for him. He'd turned over his water and food dishes all over the floor and was so worked up that he finally just puked everywhere. And that about did it for the yoga mood of the evening.This is just one of several toddler tactics--including going limp when he doesn't want to leave the foyer--that Max has seen fit to employ recently, making me think he's learning things from TV when we're not home.
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