Painting nails

During bathtime tonight, I told Gillian that I would paint her nails. She was super excited. "I'm going to pick the color!" She quickly got into her pajamas and was ready with her nail polish picked out. She sat patiently while I painted the first coat. But then I put on music for John and she wanted to dance. "Are you done yet?" I explained that I needed to do one more coat. And as I painted every nail, she asked "Are you done?" I tried to move the process along and blow on the nails to dry them faster. She complained "Can you stop that? I'm cold." She sat still until her nails dried and then danced. 

The juice box

On Sunday, John and Gillian came upstairs to get some juice boxes. Gillian asked John "Can you bring mine downstairs?" John said "No." Gillian said "I can't carry it! It's too heavy." John said "Fine, if I carry it, I get to drink it!" Gillian screamed "No! It's mine!" John said "Well then you gotta carry it." Gillian said "I can't!" John didn't take that excuse, he said "You just gotta be strong!" That worked and she carried the juice box downstairs. 

tickets

Since Daddy and I work full time, John needs to stay after school in the Time + Program.  The program runs from after school until 6 pm.  John loves it.  Every day the kids are given time for a snack, then they work on their homework and then they have free time to play games or play outside.  After the first week of school, John came home and told us "It got a ticket!"  He further explained "We get tickets if we are quiet during attendance.  If we get ten tickets we get to pick something out of the big prize box!"  The next day, we asked him if he got a ticket.  He told us "No!  And I don't know why!" 

It's been hard for him to get tickets.  He currently has 9.  Every day this week I have been asking if he has gotten the elusive 10th ticket.  Every day we get a different story.  Today, I asked him and he said "It's really hard for me.  It's not just being quiet.  I gotta sit still too.  It's hard."  I am glad that it is a challenge for him, but at the same time I hope he gets the 10th ticket soon.