Week ending April 5, 2009: This week Chloe lost another tooth, the other lower middle. This time she yanked it out of her mouth at the dinner table. She’s been hoping that the Tooth Fairy would bring her a ring and luckily the Tooth Fairy came through.
Recently the twins have started thinking about spending the money in their piggy banks. They each had $2-3 in coins and they’d been asking if they could use it to buy a toy. We hadn’t come up with anything I felt compelled to drive out to get for them and then one day Chloe told me that she’d offered the 9 year old boy next door money if he’d come and play with her. He’s busy with hockey and school, doesn’t have much time for the twins, and he’s the youngest of 4 kids, so he’s anxious that his older siblings not see him as the “baby”, so he doesn’t often agree to play with the twins. But, when he does play with them he is very funny and creative and they really love him. I didn’t think that Chloe would be happy with her decision once her money was gone, so I suggested that she pay him a penny a day, knowing he wouldn’t go for it. A few days later Alex came and told me that he’d divided his money between himself, Chloe, and me. As we talked about it, he said he thought it was “fair” that if he had something, he should divide it between the 3 of us because he loves us. I really wasn’t sure what to do at that point, so I’m afraid I botched things and Alex got sad about his money being gone. I’ve enforced with him before that when he gives things away, he doesn’t get them back. Once he gave Chloe a shirt that he didn’t like and then later decided that he did like it. Chloe didn’t want to give it back and I told Alex he’d made his decision and had to live with it. Of course this time I was able to give him back the money he’d put on my nightstand, but the money he gave to Chloe was already in her piggy bank and I didn’t see how many of which types of coins he’d given her, so I decided that she’d get to keep it.
At the grocery store this week we were in the frozen section and Chloe saw a box of fish sticks and asked for it. I try to encourage trying new foods, so I bought it. Alex had fish sticks for dinner one night and gave it a “thumbs sideways” (not up or down), but decided he didn’t want them for any more dinners. Chloe gave them a thumbs up and has had them a second time. I do cook separate dinners for the kids when Casey and I want to eat something spicy, so I don’t have to eat fish sticks myself!
The kids asked to have their faces painted this week and here’s what we came up with.
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