Bribed

Recently, I told Austin if he completed the requirements for two more activity badges - Artist and Geologist, that I would take him to the 'Percy Jackson and the Olympians' movie- both he and I have read and enjoyed the book. I also told him he needed to finish his 'art collage' project for the Artist badge before we could play Halo3 together again. It was quite effective. I will be employing similar tactics with Autumn and her Personal Progress projects.
LeAnn started playing into the bribery Ive been dealing out on the kids. A couple of days ago, after I told her the doctor wanted me doing 100 leg lifts a day to rehab my knee, she used my own tactics on me. She said if I do them for a week, that she will take me to see Avatar. Ive been trying to get her to go with me since it came out. Jaylin ended up making me a chart and even has stickers that I get to apply when I have completed my task. :)

Beautiful Princess

Highlight from my surgery last week. When I was taken into get the Anesthesia, I found that the anesthesiologist was Japanese. I asked her if I could practice my Japanese on her. She said I could, but she likely wouldnt catch very much of it. (Must be second generation :)) So I threw out the following: "Kyou wa tottemo tanoshimii ni shite imasu!" or "I am really looking forward to today! After she heard that, she said: "So you are feeling like a beautiful fairy princess!"? Thank you Dr. Watanabe for lightening up the mood of a not-so-fun situation. :)