Flying Kites

After being sick, the kids always have trouble sleeping for a while. I think they just get in the habit of when they wake up at night they need to cry and wake me up. So once they are well we have to start over and re-train them to not wake us up in the middle of the night. Call it rewarding good behavior or call it bribery, but this is what we use. The other night the kids were promised a special prize if they could sleep (or quietly stay in their beds) all the way until 7:00. Of course, they succeeded on the first time. So off to the Target dollar section we went. Brendan spotted kites and that was his choice. And of course, Wyatt chose what Brendan chose. So we went home, had a good nap first and then went out front to fly some kites. Now mind you these kites were a dollar, so we're lucky they worked as well as they did. I don't think they will be taking too many more flights. But hey, they did the trick, right? Now they've slept 2 nights and it only cost me $2.00.