Moments of Truth

We didn't get to work with our son again on dinner manners because of another Halloween party. As far as our daughter constantly yelling  for our attention, not much progress. We were reading "Good Night Moon" tonight, and our daughter kept yelling, "Daddy! Moon!" I said, "Honey, use your quiet voice," but it made no difference. She kept yelling, "Daddy! Moon!" with every page. Usually it's pretty frustrating, but tonight I couldn't help but laugh as she yelled to me throughout the entire book, despite the fact that I was sitting right next to her.

Despite a lack of progress with our daughter, our son really surprised us tonight. He gets a weekly allowance, which we let him put in jars labelled after things he wants to save for. His sister's birthday is coming up, so he gave us some of his allowance to pay for a gift that he is really excited to give her, one he picked out. But he kept insisting on giving us money. We didn't understand why and kept explaining that we pay for his birthday gift. He said that he wanted his sister to be able to get him something for his birthday too. We said she would help us get him a gift. Then he insisted on giving us some of his allowance again and said, "but she doesn't have any money." It was so sweet that we decided to let him give his money to his sister so that she would have some money to buy his birthday gift.