Stars

We tried something new with Emily last week. We were shopping and she saw a princess doll at the check out line. I reminded her when we go to the store that you don't get to buy everything you see. Anyway, she had a small meltdown on the way out when I told her we weren't buying the princess. The princess cost $5 so I told her that she could earn a star each day if she was sweet and obeyed her parents, etc etc. When she earned 5 stars we would go back and buy Miss Princess.

It took her 7 days to get her 5 stars and here she is with her 5 stars that she colored and her prize princess:
I don't know that this star thing is going to work out in the long run though. The other day at the pool she didn't want to share her toys with Lilly. I told her she was going to lose her star for the day if she didn't learn how to share. She said, "I don't want to be nice today. I'll just get a star tomorrow instead." Great . . . I told her unfortunately she was going to share whether she earned the star or not . . . it just depended on how quickly she decided to do the right thing and share her toys.

She also found the lolly pop stash that Joe has in the house. He secretly gets one out and puts it in his pocket and when he gets home from work Emily gets all excited thinking he brought her a lolly pop from work. Well last night she got out of her bed after bed time and I told her if she got out of her bed again that Dad wasn't going to bring her home a lolly pop. She said, "that's o.k. he has a whole bag in the drawer I can have." AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I'm not creative enough to think of ways to keep this girl in line : )