Relax

Down Time

Since returning from Vegas, I've been quite busy.  A few of our activities the past few days: babysitting Nolan a couple of times, Henry's 1000th day celebration, watching Kung Fu Panda at the free summer movies, and several trips to the grocery store. 

Today, Avery is at school.  As a result I got the dogs walked (first time in a while - the guilt was eating me up inside) and can now do a quick blog post and then get to relaxing and reading my book.

Whine Out

I've started a renewed attempt to get Avery's whining under control.  I call it the whine out.  Basically, when she asks for something in a whiny tone, I tell her she's got a whine out which means she has to wait a minute before she can ask again and she has to ask in a nice tone at that point or she'll get another whine out. 

In one respect, it's working very well so far in that she forgets to re-ask about 50% of the time and simply asks nicely the other 50%. However, it doesn't seem to be reducing the whining which is the ultimate goal.  I've only been doing it for a few days, so maybe after a couple of weeks we'll see some reduction.  All the online suggests for whining reduction have done diddly-squat, so I figured we'd go with a homegrown idea. 

Date Nights Galore

Tonight is the G's date night.  Tomorrow, D and I head out.  Last night, I had a date with Stacey at Beast - yum!