Time Out!

We are having issues with time out.

So I, being the more developed human devised a new tactic.

After, one of Logan's 45 minute timeouts where I kept placing him on an imaginary dot on the floor and that dot kept rolling down the hall and into a room. ( 5 seconds people), I decided the "DOT" needed to be more literal then figurative. So, I bought a round rug, and began placing him on it and saying:

" You are in time out for ______, you may not move off of this rug, you must keep your body on this rug. If you do not keep your body on this rug, your time out will start over."

Here is our progress:

(This is in 2 minutes!)

This is at the beginning, doesn't he look like a poster child for excellent time out procedure! My plan is working!! Happy! Happy! Joy! Joy!

At 1 minute! His migration has begun, he is testing the limits of the dot. But his body is still on the rug, so I proceed to ignore the behavior. At his point I am still VERY pleased with my self. My tactic is working, and I am feeling like I have outsmarted, outwit and outplayed my 2 year old. Mommy is not getting voted off THIS island tonight!

Okay, here is the WHAT THE CRAP!?! moment. This is at 1:55. He has 5 seconds left and I turn around, because I am straightening up in the same room, and find this. He is clearly "not on the dot" the way that I had intended, but he is still "technically" on the dot. Notice the clearly placed elbow, and side.

Mommy, the Island has spoken!