What were they thinking?

I mentioned before having issues on occasion with Snookie and Bubba playing after lights out. Well last night they topped themselves. At about 8:15 or so I started hearing this knocking sound, but it didn't sound like it was coming from inside the house... I thought people were playing outside, or messing around with fireworks still (yep, we have people that must have spent some serious dough and are still playing with them). The banging kept on and kept on, and finally at 9:00 DH thought it might actually be coming from the boys room... HMMMMM... so we turned on the monitor and sure enough something was going on in there.

As quietly and quickly as we could we made our way down there, and thru open the door and lights to catch them in the act. And there was Snookie and Bubba, blankets over their head playing in the closet... the closet door was banging against the bookshelf which was banging against the wall!

Pissed off that we have to deal with this again... we made each of the little geniuses go to time out till we could come up with something that would fit the misbehavior. It took a while, somewhere around 15 minutes of them standing in timeout and for DH and I to put our heads together... and we (me) came up with GOLD! They aren't tired, they want to be up... we will give them something to do! That's were jumping jacks come in. Now, their jumping jacks are not the typical look. It is more of, legs shoulder with apart, jumping straight up and down and clapping over their head (kind of spastic monkey style).

The punishment phase, 10 minutes straight of their jumping jacks, a 4 minute break and then an additional 5 minutes of jumping. Oh were they tired when we were finished with them. It started all funny, they were laughing like this was some sort of joke... by the end they were very frustrated and crying. The additional part of the punishment was that they would have to take an additional nap (before lunch) for a few days. So this morning after DH left for his business trip (around 10:00 first nap was to begin). Andrew went down and fussed a little, but quieted down and took it like a man. Austin, not so easy to break. It took an hour and 3 sets of 5 minutes of jumping jacks for him to finally get the idea. That kid just fights and fights sleep! One day he will be begging for more!