While I was down there I stayed at my sister Erika's house. She recently came up with an expectations chart for each of her girls and at the end of each week she adds up the stars that they earned and they get to pick prizes out of her "treasure bucket." I thought it would be a good idea to try it out with my boys while I was staying down there.
I am actually pretty proud of my boys for earning all those stars. For some reason when we come down to San Diego without Daddy, it's as if all hell breaks loose. They tend to not listen.. to anyone. Reef tends to forget his manners and Hawk becomes extremely.. Hawkish. (You have to know him to even begin to understand what that means..) It got to the point where they were excited to see what stars they got for that day and I was able to use "you aren't going to get a star for today if you don't pick up those toys..."At the end of the week they loved the idea of getting to pick different prizes from the bucket! The smaller items were worth 5 stars and the bigger ones were worth 20.
(N.N. stands for Naughty Natasha, anyone who watches Sesame Street will get that one..)
I decided to use tickets so that it would help them understand exactly what they could get.
One thing I learned throughout this whole process was l have to have different levels of expectations for each of my boys. Hawk did so well with some things that Reef may not do so well with and vise versa.
Now with all that said.. I have to ask, does anyone have as big of a problem taking pictures of their 2 year old as I do?? Here are just a few of the outtakes of Hawk...
Now with all that said.. I have to ask, does anyone have as big of a problem taking pictures of their 2 year old as I do?? Here are just a few of the outtakes of Hawk...
He sure is my busy boy!! BUT I wouldn't have it any other way... well maybe some days! ;)
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