Don't tell the Princess!

Well, supper is ready. All we need now is DadOf3. The Prince and the Princess are playing upstairs and the Knight is playing down here. All is well in FamilyOf5Land! DadOf3 ended up taking the Prince, the Knight and me out to lunch today! It was a surprise and kind of fun. We did not advertise the news to the Princess but she gets to do lots of neat stuff at school every day without us. The Princess came home on SUPER STAR again today - and she was the only one in her class to get that. What a good girl. Princess also brought home a neat piece of artwork that I am posting. It is a dragon that she made while studying about China. I thought it turned out great! The Prince and the Knight were good boys this morning and played really well. I am adding a picture of them playing in a truck that GrandpaOf4 (my dad) sent to the Prince. This truck is used every day. Kind of neat that I got them together. At the end of the day, I got a picture of all three kiddos. A very nice way to end a very nice day.

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!

Waiting for the Princess

It is now 2:41 and I am waiting for the Princess to come home on the school bus. I am counting the days until I get her home all day long again. Summer will be fun. The Princess is an amazing girl. She has more than her share of attitude but I don't think that is all that bad. I actually wish I had more of her attitude some days. She puts up with NOTHING. It would be fun to be 5 again and to be able to be able to drop to the floor in full tantrum mode when someone didn't do something the way I told him too. My but she can be LOUD! The Prince is usually to cuprit who is guilty of not listening to her, but the Knight is coming into his own. The Knight usually is just happy to get some of the Princess's attention. The Princess should be in a good mood this afternoon. She only had one more sticker to earn for her behavior sticker sheet, so she should come home with a new little trinket from Teacher's treasure chest. Teacher has a neat system. The kids all start the day on STAR. If they are really good or really helpful, they move to SUPER STAR. If they are kind of naughty, they are moved to OOPS. If they are really naughty (this includes hitting, kicking, etc.) they move to CHILL OUT. I love it and hope to implement it this summer. Having three kids alone all day every day is going to be crazy. Luckily the BreadWinner will be home for the weekend. We love that Daddy!