Abby the thief gets punished

E&A were have a pre-bedtime snack of fruit wheels. They’d come get one, go play while it dissolved and they ate it, come back for another, etc. Abby was scarfing down hers at a faster pace than Emi.

At one point, Abby did not have one and Emi was munching on hers, but Emi was leaning on me while doing it so I got to witness the transaction. Abby came up to Em, stole it right out of her mouth and Emi started to cry.

So, I said ‘Abby, no!’ and stole it back from Abby (who was in the process of putting it into her mouth) and tried to give it to Emi who slapped it onto the floor (I guess it was tainted now) and refused another one (all with tears in her eyes at the same time).

Abby looked at me like I’d slapped her and the big pouty lip poked out and she started to cry, turned around and cried and walked away, heading straight to Daddy for comfort! 🙂

Once I managed to get Emi to eat a new one (I had to actually put it in her mouth, just as the other one had been for her to accept it) we gave Abby the “tainted” one and all was right with the world again.