Shep told a lie to us for the first time this wkend.  Told me he had finished his sandwich so he could get a cookie and then I found it hidden. I thought he had also switched out his oatmeal bowl with his sister's empty one that same morning but could not prove it...

later i put him in time out for something and when I went in to talk to him about it he was reading a book and said 'I'm reading. I'm in time out." with this surly attitude - JUST like a teenager.

And so it begins. Sigh.