Deacon

Oh my! Deacon is growing up so fast! That little boy is just amazing with his abilities and his comprhension of things. He totally gets timeouts. (Yeah, finally punishment!) Of course, I think he likes it so I'm not sure how effective the timeouts are going to be. You tell him to go to timeout and he just marches right over to the wall and sits down. He will actually stay there until we tell him to get up. He doesn't like staying there very long and will start crying after about 30 seconds so he must not like it too much. I just can't believe that he actually understands what he's supposed to do.
He also loves to antagonize his brother. Tyler's pretty particular about his cars and he doesn't like sharing his "special" cars. Deacon doesn't really care about the cars, but he loves to mess with Tyler so when Ty's attention is diverted, he'll run over to where the cars are and grab one and then take off. You'll hear him giggling as he runs down the hall with one of Ty's cars clutched tightly in his little fist. Ty, of course, then goes screaming after him. I'm trying to teach Tyler that Deke will give it back to him, if he just waits until he stops running and then asks for it. 9 times out of 10 Deke will give it back with no problem, but if you try to pry it out of his hands, he immediatly goes into death grip mode and will not let it go unless you pull back each one of his fingers. There have been a few times, I've been in the kitchen and Deke will run in with one of Ty's cars. If I tell him to go give it back, he'll go give it back to Tyler and then come back in the kitchen clapping his hands so proud of himself. He can be such a stinker!