4 Miles

As I understand it children and the immature adults of this world are unable to comprehend delayed gratification.  Therefore, I would expect that when given a choice The Tort would choose the pleasurable item first and deal with the less pleasurable item later.  I was wrong.

This evening I gave him a choice.  He could choose to play for 5 more minutes and then get his jamas on OR he could get his jamas on and then play for 5 more minutes.  I fully expected him to choose to play for 5 more minutes.  Nope.  He wanted to get jamas on then play for 5 more minutes.  Delayed gratification in a 3 year old. 

It is the end of November, the end of National Blog Posting Month.  I am very proud that I achieved my goal of posting everyday!  Who-hoo! I won't continue to post everyday, I feel I got a bit boring at times. But I do want to keep up posting more regularly then I was. And now, a few random things I wanted to share: 

This week in preschool they learned the letter "G". Each letter has a story with it, and Mr. G was chewing some gwey gum. The teacher gave each child a piece of gum today at the end of the day and he or she could chew it if Mommy said it was ok. (And how do you say no to that?) Will got his first piece of "Bumble Gum", as he called it. He swallowed it within the first minute.

Here is a cool site that lets you make a snowflake & help the Salvation Army.  The more snowflakes made, the more money the site will donate. Plus, it's really cool! Also, on the main page you can see snowflakes other people have made.

Alex has mastered something his brother never did at this age. He is able to sign "More" while eating to let me know he wants more food. That was the only sign I ever wanted Will to learn!  He never did. Will was talking before he ever showed me the sign–but he's very good at using it now!