September 25th

The other day my mom sent Vallerie an umbrella to match the rain boots I got her. Vallerie was thrilled. There was a letter that went with it and Vallerie had fun reading it. There were also lollipops, which Vallerie also loved. I snapped a few pictures of her with the umbrella and in the boots.

Yesterday I decided to make Vallerie a chart. This chart has things like "go to bed nicely", "Finish dinner", etc. Well, when she does one of those things then her duck in that row can move forward. (little magnetic ducks) When she gets her duck to the star she gets a reward.  When I implemented it yesterday she was not really into it at first, so I decided to make her ducks move ahead for really simple things like throwing out her garbage. Well, that seemed to work. Last night she was hopped up on sugar (more on that in a bit) and Eddie and I told her that if she went to bed nicely, without fussing that in the morning she could move her duck forward. Well, she did, and this morning when she got up, the first thing she said to me was that she wanted to move her duck.

Last night was movie night! After dinner we got a big bowl of popcorn and another big bowl and filled it with candy (gummy worms, candy pumpkins, circus peanuts, and twizzlers) then we moved the couch really close to the tv and watched Epic. It was pretty good. Vallerie did a few funny things while it was on. She covered her eyes a few times and said "wowzers" (weird). She got a little antsy towards the end, but it was past her bed time. When we did get her to go to bed she was literally bouncing off the walls. Lesson learned I suppose.

This morning, Vallerie found the bowl with the candy in it. She wanted that for breakfast. I told her no and she totally freaked out. Then I told her that if she didn't calm down then I would take her ducks away. That worked like a charm.

Here is a picture of her chart and one of her being silly.