Is this her 'get out of jail free' card?

Today I'm holding R and she rips my glasses off of my face. This is not something entirely new-- she liked to grab glasses when she was just a teeny little thing learning to grab things-- but we've worked hard on not allowing her to grab people's glasses and redirecting her and that sort of thing, and it's not really something she does often.

I put my glasses on and she grabs them right off again and throws them on the floor before I have time to react.

This time, I'm not so patient, and I say "No!" to her quite sternly. She starts to fuss because, well, who knows why-- because I didn't laugh? because I was stern? because she wants to grab glasses? because she doesn't want me to be wearing my glasses? because she wants my glasses on the floor?-- and I put my glasses on and am prepared for her to try and grab them again.

Sure enough, she lunges for them. But I'm ready. She still gets my glasses, but I am about to really lay down the law, and I'm looking right at her, prepared to say something along the lines of, "No, R, No grabbing glasses!" in my stern, no-nonsense voice.

Before I can get into my little speech, though, she comes back with her biggest smile and says "HUG!" with her arms widespread. She lunges again, but this time for my neck and wraps her arms around me as tightly as she can.

We all start laughing. "Hug" is kind of her "get out of jail free" card. If she's adorable and cute right when we want to be angry with her... well, it's nearly impossible to keep from laughing. She didn't get her scolding. But she also stopped grabbing my glasses.

I still don't know what brought it on or what exactly stopped it.

Time out

We just started doing time outs with R.

So far they have only happened on two occasions after she'd started flinging food off her high chair during a meal. We've found that when we look at her sternly and say "No!" she thinks it's hilarious.

She doesn't think time outs are hilarious, though. We do them following the advice of our pediatrician, where we hold her in our laps facing the wall, don't look at her at all, and keep her there for about a minute.

So far I don't know how effective they are as a deterrent but we've only done 2 so far.