Long time no post...
Since it's been awhile and I can't remember everything that's happened in the last month and a half I will just go over what I can remember.
Over the Memorial Day weekend we went and visited my mom in VA. We had a great time. We went to VA Beach for one day and had a lot of fun swimming in the pool and playing on the beach. We went to Boxerwood Gardens and got our annual picture of Vallerie walking up the hill. We got ice cream a couple times. Vallerie and Eddie both said that it was the best ice cream they had ever had.
Vallerie's stuck a crayon up her nose, stuck stickers all over the wall (saying the fake man told her to), and she also decided she would put a band aid on the dog's incision (from being spayed). She actually put a band aid on it twice.
We started a new rewards/punishment system. It's good sticks and bad sticks. So we have popsicle sticks in jars. One jar has rewards (stay up 15 min late, extra dessert, sweet treat, treasure box, etc) and the other jar has punishments (go to bed 15 min early, no tv for 1 hour, toy time out, etc) Vallerie seems to be doing ok with them. She's definitely had to pick more punishments than rewards, but she sure does hate those bad sticks. I think it's more effective than time out. We have a treasure box that includes little toys and stickers, so that is potentially one of her rewards. We also have tokens as a reward on her sticks which she can use to buy things (treasure box, gas station candy, etc)
Our niece Sumer spent the night at our house last night. Her and Vallerie played with the power wheel a little before they went to bed. Sumer taught Vallerie how to steer it. Vallerie had a bad dream about a spider and woke up at 4:30. After I calmed her down and put them back in her room, Vallerie decided she didn't want to go back to sleep, so we moved Sumer into our room on the floor. I hope Eddie has an ok day with them.
We bought a bigger dog crate yesterday. I think Zooka will like it a lot better than the one she is in now which an ok size, but she's going to outgrow it pretty quick. We got it for a great price at Rural King.
