Well now that Charlie is over his upper respiratory and sinus infections, he has his energy and gumph back and we will soon be on our way to completion with this project! I will be posting pictures, don't worry!
Bear got let out this week and was lost for a day. I am sure glad he had his tags on. I always want to take his collar off cause it looks uncomfortable but it is not an option I have found. Savannah doesn't realize that letting him out the front door is not the same as letting him out the back. I think she has learned her lesson though.
Savannah seems to think lately that when I come get her it from the babysitter's house, it is even more playtime and doesn't understand that I want to go home. She has fought me one to many times in this battle and I've come up with a solution that so far has worked.She has been doing so good. We have made a smile chart for her so that when she has completed 10 days worth of smiles she will be allowed to pick a prize. Getting the smiles means behaving at the time I pick her up at the babysitters, she is also allowed to get extra smiles on the weekends for doing her chores when asked. Today she only had 6 smiles but to prove to her that I wasn't fooling, I allowed her to pick a smaller prize. On the way home from the store I had reminded her that she had earned it and then she said, "I'm going to take good care of this." Amazing how a kid learns the value of money when they have to work for it.
Same thing with Jake, he got a bit of birthday money from grandma's and friends, well he has been trying to talk us into buying a juvenile hippo tang for the tank that costs about $45. I told him, "I guess you can go buy it for yourself with your birthday money now..." His reaction was just what I thought it would be..."Nah, I want to save my money." I told him that it wasn't as fun to buy stuff for the tank when he has to use his own money and he agreed. I think he'll appreciate what we do put in there.
Gotta run, we're taking Jacob out for his birthday/celebrating Charlie's recent raise/celebrating my upcoming raise in July. Have a great evening!
1 comment:
Glad Charlie is feeling better!
You know when I did daycare I dreaded pick up time, kids always go nuts. I should have thought of your smile chart :-) Glad it is working for you!
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