Eli has been asking to go to "Uncle Norm's" house to see his cows and horse. He wasn't there, but Cara let them pet and feed them. The boys (minus scaredy Tyler) loved it!
On Saturday me and my mom took the kids out to Rawhide for a bit. Emma loved the gun show and the horse show, it really surprised me how much she got into it. The boys just loved being outside, walking around in the dirt and climbing on everything. The best part of the whole trip though, what made it all worth it, was the "shoot guns" the boys got. They love taking things from their room and pretending they are "shoot guns" (that's what they call them). I decided to buy them each one and they were in heaven. They would walk around shooting everyone, taking it in and out of their holster, etc. They had a lot of fun and it was a great time waster so I loved it.
And my favorite/worse part of the whole week had to do with Emma. The girl loses dance shoes all the time. I can't stand it. They usually end up showing up somewhere (not at our house) but the stress to find it is going to give me a heart attack. I can't stand it. It is the bane of my existence. This weekend I discovered Emma lost one of her 3 week old pirouettes, awhhhhh! I have tried everything to help her remember and not lose her shoes. I have tried every punishment as well to try and help sink in how much she needs to be more responsible with them. We have tried grounding, doing dirty jobs around the house (like wiping down all the baseboards), taking away electronics from her, threatening her to buy the replacement pair, etc...nothing has got it to sink in. Finally this weekend was the last straw for me. I decided, you lose your shoes, you will have to wear mismatched shoes then. No one thought I would do it, but I did it.Today Emma went to church in a nice cream colored sweater with a red skirt and 1 brown sketcher with 1 pink high top converse. (sorry I totally dropped the ball on the picture taking). When she came in our room to get dressed and I told her what shoes she was going to wear, she lost it. She cried. Then on the way to church she cried louder, "everyone is going to think I am lame and dumb cause my shoes don't match." Then when Sacrament was about to end she asked if we were going home (we never go home, why would we start now?!). I told her no and then the tears started again, then she said she was going to hide in the bathroom and I told her no, she was going to class and hopefully this would teach her a lesson.
Tomorrow we will be going to dance and I will be checking each girls bag for Emma's shoe, if it is not in there, Tuesday she will be back to mismatched shoes until I can come up with another plan!
ps - I must not forget a shout-out to the goodies I got this week! Thanks friends for the fountain pepsi, cinnamon rolls, tortilla soup and bag of chocolates! (yes, I seriously have been gaining weight since Jared left!)
5 comments:
What a fun time waster! I like my shoot gun too... :)
I also really like the punishment. If she doesn't learn from that...I don't think she will learn it at all. :)
Personally I think it's a brilliant punishment - and directly related to the problem (which is often hard to do!). She was in tears when she came to class yesterday and she kept them hidden behind her scripture bag and under the chair the whole time. I couldn't bring myself to say anything to her!
During sharing time I had to pick someone from my class to go up and help with something. I asked her if she wanted to go since she was being the best behaved (I was sure she'd tell me no). She say yes and ran right up there to help, then she got up there and I think she realized everyone could see her shoes and she looked very embarrassed!
Okay!!! Thank you for explaining the shoe thing!!! Sis. Barker and I really wanted to ask Emma in primary why she was wearing different shoes but we could also tell that she was having a VERY BAD DAY and so I decided not to ask! But I think it's a great idea and I'm sure she'll pay closer attention from now own:)
would it work to keep the dance bag just for shoes in the car always? and flip flops as well in case you go somewhere right after dance?
I knew a family that always kept all the church shoes in the car cos they were losing them all the time and that helped.
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