05/22/2013

Normal Wednesday today. School, practicing, piano lessons. Joseph didn't want to finish his piano practicing. There is a piece he is playing that he particularly is not excited about practicing, and so when we got to it, he begged to practice it "later." So I lectured him a while on exercising his discipline muscles in making himself do what he didn't want to do, and delay gratification and all that good stuff. The usual. I'm not sure if I convinced him, or just wore him down by my lecturing... Either way, he finished his practicing. :-) I wonder if he will remember all of this when he is grown up? Mosey got upset around 2:30 or so as he realized that Brigham was nearly done with his schoolwork, and he (Mosey), was not. Mosey loves to get up early (5:30 this morning) and start his schoolwork. Of course many times that means getting up at 5:30 and playing computer games until breakfast, but the intention is there. :-) Sometimes he is on fire and finishes everything before lunch. Today was not one of those days, and he got very sad when Brigham finished first, even though Mosey got up earlier. So it was a good occasion to talk about Brigham's single-mindedness. A great thing when it means he stays utterly focused on his schoolwork and practicing until it's done, but not so good in other ways, like when he was 3 years old and had the most unbelievably long tantrums over the craziest things. You just could not distract the kid. :-) But, everyone did eventually finish everything and then helped Ben clean the pool when he got home. He and I went to visit some people from church and came home to find the boys watching an old episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. What can I say? Ben and I are geeky kids of the '80's. Our kids are doomed. :-)