Good Nights

We don't generally get a lot of good nights of sleep here. So Dae and I set up this incentive program for the kids (Leelee) to both 1) stay in his room all night and 2) if he has to come over, to not cry or scream when he enters our room. The first night he was promised Dairy Queen and that guy stayed in his room all night for the first time in months. So we got dip cones at DQ last night. Now we're back to stars for every night that he stays in his room.

So last night he came over to our room around midnight and quietly got into bed. When he woke up this morning, he said "Mom, what about my star?".  I said that stars were only given out if he stayed in his room all night. He said "But how about because I was quiet?" and I stalled for a minute but then stuck to my guns and asked "But, if I give you star for just being quiet, what do you get if you stay in your room all night?" and he said he gets Dairy Queen. So I was laughing and told him that we couldn't go to Dairy Queen every day since it was a really special one-time occasion and before I could continue he said "No, I think I should get a star, and actually it's a good thing that I didn't stay in my room all night because then we'd have to go to Dairy Queen tonight and we can't go to Dairy Queen every day!" The logic! (At time of press, he has not gotten a star yet)

He made this February calendar at school. Cracks me up. Well over half of his numbers are backwards. His teacher Karin assured me last year that writing backward was nothing to worry about and was not a predictor of dyslexia.