The Prince Earns His Prize!

The Prince woke up from nap this afternoon and earned his 5th check mark for keeping his pull-up dry! We have been working on this for a while so this is a BIG deal! The Prince earned a Lightning McQueen shake and go car. He was SO proud of himself and we are SO proud of him! The Princess came home from school with a Good Behavior Prize too! It is a day for Prizes in our house! The Princess chose a hand held fan that needs no batteries. Very neat! She pumps it with her hand to make it go. Way to go Prince and Princess! You are growing up! I snapped a picture of the Knight too. He just woke up and is not very with it but he is a cutie pie just the same!

Princess Goes to the Treasure Chest

I finally figured out why the Princess was working so hard to be on Super Star every day for the last month or so. Her substitute teacher stocked up Teacher's treasure chest with some high ticket items, namely sidewalk chalk. The Princess went to the treasure chest right before Teacher was out for a month, so she had to be on her very best behavior to fill up her Good Behavior Chart before all of the sidewalk chalk had been chosen. As of last Friday, the Princess needed one more sticker to go before she could visit the Treasure Chest. She earned that last sticker yesterday and was lucky enough to visit the Treasure Chest before one of her classmates who also had her eyes on the sidewalk-chalk-prize could get it. To make a long story short, Princess came home with the coveted sidewalk chalk last night. She was PROUD! She carried it home on the bus instead of putting it into her backpack. She explained to me that it was very fragile and that the boys could not play with it until she had played with it first because she had earned it. It has been rainy for the last couple of days here so we could not go out and play with it last night, so I let the Princess and the Prince used the chalk on our inside chalkboard. This has a white board on the other side and we usually use the white board - less mess for MomOf3 to clean up. This was a very special day. Princess does have a competitive steak! I am happy that she met her goal and won her prize!

Heading out for some fun - TGIF!

The Prince, the Knight, and I are heading out for some fun this morning with my MOPS group. We are heading out to a little park that has cow statues and a pond with ducks. We will bring some old bread and feed the birdies. It will be interesting to see how the Knight does with this. He tends to migrate towards water and then directly into the water. I had better bring a change of clothes now that I think about it. I'll bring the camera and let you know how it goes. (BTW, I did get 20000 steps in on Wednesday! Woo hoo! A new record!) It is going to be another gorgeous day here - 80 degrees and sunny. We had another rough morning with the Princess. She does not like to have anyone awake when she wakes up on school days except me. She gets mad at the Prince when he comes downstairs early and basically tells him to go back up. Well, we amended our Behavior chart to include early morning behavior too. She was moved to OOPS this morning after not being kind to the Prince. It made for about a 40 minute fight which left about 20 minutes for her to get dressed, eat breakfast, brush her teeth, go potty, and put on her shoes. NOT a fun way to start the day. We had no time to read which really bums me out. The Princess is actually reading! She is not even 6 years old yet. I love to hear her read to me. On a good day when we get up at 6:00AM, she is done getting ready by 6:30 and we have an entire 1/2 hour to read together. Days like this bum me out because I feel like she missed out on some good reading practice. We are going to keep up the reading over the summer. I am going to have her write letters to her friends, cousins, and grandparents through the summer to keep up with her writing. After the Princess got on the school bus, the boys and I settled in for the day. They have had breakfast and are now watching Cars. I wanted to get a picture of the Prince this morning with his beloved tractors. It took me three tries to get a good shot. I was just going to put in the good one but then I thought showing the entire process could be amusing. Have a good day!