Duplos already?

I can't believe we are here already. He's getting remarkably good with attaching the duplos. Not 100%, but frequently. And he definitely has ideas about what he wants on there. After this pic he got down and got some characters, cow, bear, man, etc. he grunts when he attaches them, the same grunt as when he does "show us your muscles."

Time out

Ezra's first time out.
He is always trying to play in or dump over the dog water. So, we've taken to keeping it up in the counter unless Ezra's not around or in the highchair.
Worked pretty well until now when he realized he could take the little stool over to it and still reach it well enough to dump it all out.
Would he stay in the corner for time out? Of course not. Not after one or two or countless reminders. I kept taking him immediately back to he corner and putting him down on his bottom and saying, "Sit!". He just gets up and comes back to the scene of the crime. So I put him in the high chair facing he corner. Now he's screaming his head off, but maybe he'll get the idea. And times up, so I should let him out.

And he's up, again.

Ezra must have climbed up here at least two dozen times today. He also climbed on the dinning room table multiple times and on his brother's desk (after taking off his diaper), and into the highchair by himself and other feats unattempted by children unlike mine. Mine are all apparently made from the same mold. Telling them no, redirecting them, or attempting to make it harder to do are good strategies for other people's children. So say the patenting books and the experiences of my peers. Not for my boys. Case in point, I flipped up the little seat on the desk hoping that would dissuade him from climbing. (The old thing is very stiff and too difficult for him to push back down.). No problem. It took him an extra four or five seconds to climb up the first time he tried the new approach.
Where did these boys come from? And how are they all so much alike? Aren't siblings supposed to be different from each other?

More boy decorating

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Sleepy lunch time

Guess I should have put him down for nap a little earlier.