Time Out

Nikolai is really big on pretend play these days. This afternoon, I heard him playing a little scenario in which he told his teddy bear that he had to go to time out (likely inspired by his own time out this morning for saying the word "idiot" several times, even after I told him not to). 

I didn't think much of it, but later as I went out to check the mail I discovered his teddy bear, sitting obediently in Niko's normal time out spot:

Apparently all that role-playing wasn't enough to solidify the lesson though--Niko was put in time out not 30 minutes after my discovery for again saying that verboten word.