consolation prize

For a while, Emily was getting reds and yellows for her behavior at school.  A few weeks ago, she got boots for staying on green for five days.  She was so proud.  So now, every day when I go to pick her up, she quickly reports whether or not she's on green.  And most days she is, which makes both of us proud. 

Sometimes when she's on green we do something special, like go to the library.  Yesterday I had a great bribe reward for her.  I promised to take her to Jump N Jive.  It's a great place with lots of indoor inflatable jumpy things, a ball pit, and lots of other things for kids to do.  They were having a benefit for the handicapped children's playground, so I thought I'd take Emily there and benefit the cause (theirs as well as mine).  When I picked her up from school and found out she was on green I really, really played up going to Jump N Jive after dinner.  And Emily was really, really excited to go there.  When we got there, they were closed :(  I had the wrong date for the benefit.

So I thought it only fair to take her to Wal Mart as a second choice.  She shopped in the movies for a long time before she chose two to take home.  I know she was disappointed not getting to go to Jump N Jive, but I think she liked her consolation prize.