MARBLE (and camera) MANIA

Chase's wonderful preschool teachers came up with an incentive to help Chase make good choices while he's in class.  (He's especially challenged with this at craft time, as crafting is the last thing he wants to do 95% of the time.)  So...now he earns marbles when he makes the good choice to follow his teachers' directions without protesting or whining.  When he's accumulated 20 marbles, he earns a reward!  I LOVE THIS!  It's been just the inspiration and positive reinforcement that he's needed, rather than the negative consequences he was receiving from me when I would hear at the end of class that he didn't do a good job.  His chosen reward is a smoothy from Jamba Juice.   He's earned this TWO times!  Way to go, Chase Ryan!

Monday we went straight after school for the tasty treat after he earned his last 3 marbles.  (I know that it is entirely unnecessary for me to post my camera settings on my pictures, but it makes me feel like a real professional, even if I'm currently still operating at poser level.  After my camera class on Saturday, I find myself looking at other pictures and wondering what people had their cameras set to.   Feel free to make a little fun of me about this.)



TASTY GOODNESS!

And here is my artistic picture of Chase's special marbles that we keep for him at home to track his progress at school.  See my blurry foreground and background and my in-focus marbles?  I did that!  I told my camera what to do, and it did it.  I feel awesome about this.  I also feel awesome that Chase is really grooving on his marble/smoothy incentive program.  It is WONDERFUL!