Trying something new...

So Payton has really been struggling to be good in school the last 2 weeks or so. This week we had not so great reports on Monday and Tuesday. She is acting defiant with her teachers, not listening and basically being naughty! We are quite concerned about it, although her teachers assure me that this is normal and that she certainly isn't the biggest handful they have. They just wanted to be sure that we were all on the same page as to where to draw the line with Payton. The Christmas program is tomorrow night and they actually have a lot of kids out of sorts with the holidays coming. I am really hoping that she is just overwhelmed with all of our holiday festivities. Last week we were busy every night! Anyway... first thing to go is TV. She loves to watch a show when she gets home from school, which is good for us to so we can make dinner! Monday and Tuseday she was TV free. You should have heard the fuss... until she realizes that she has a ton of toys she can play with. So we brainstormed and we now have a calendar in her room and are rewarding her with a sticker when she has had a good day. This reminds me of our "potty chart" we used to have before she was potty trained! Anyway on Wednesday I had called her teacher during nap time to see how she was doing, and good job girl! She was doing "excellent". So Payton ran into her room when she got home to put a sticker on her calendar. So far so good.

On a sidenote, our children have finally been initiated into the macdonald's playland... We went last night with a couple of friends. They couldn't believe that we had never set foot in our MacDonald's before! We rarely eat fast food, and if we do it is convience and we go through the drive through... How are we going to get away with that now?! Guess we had a good run anyway!