Welcome Zurg

Well the big day finally came.

After a couple months of hard work, patient waiting, lots of talks about obedience, and lots of practicing good listening, Brinlee finally earned all of the puff balls she needed, and Zurg became a part of the family!

I think I might have mentioned that a couple months ago, we started a puff ball jar with Brinlee to see if we could help get a better grip on how big 3-year-old girls can be obedient.  We had her decide on the goal she would work toward, and then settled on an amount of puffs it would take for her to earn it.  She decided she wanted a set of Toy Story character figurines like she had seen at her friend's house. Why?  Because the set had a Buzz who's wings were out "like a flying" (unlike the little Buzz she already had that McKenna now chews on), and it had a Zurg! I'm not sure why, but Brinlee kind of takes pity on the villains and the "bad guys" and makes believe about how they are only mean sometimes in the movies, but "most times they are really nice!  And we are friends, and they love me! And we can all play together!"  She really loves all the characters, but Zurg caught her eye especially.  We found the set online and saved it in her own Amazon wish list.  And for a couple months she has been talking about Zurg toy, and doing extra chores, and steadily earning and losing puff balls.  And on Sunday, she finally did it!  She was awesome during sacrament meeting and earned her last two puffs. So we ordered the toy, and yesterday afternoon it came in the mail.  

And she has been on cloud 9 ever since!

She is seriously such a good, big girl! I've actually been really impressed with her drive.  I thought she would realize how long it was taking and either give up or forget.  But no way, not this girl.  Her sights were set, and she would not be moved!  And she did it! We had a few rough days in there, but I'm really proud of her!  She's so awesome.

She already settled on her next goal and is trying to get her jar full again.  I'm surprised at how well this is working for her.  Granted, she is 3.  A very headstrong 3 at that!  We still need a lot of practice with this whole obedience thing. But so far, this seems to be helping.  

And she is dang cute cuddling with that Zurg!