Bribery seemed to work for potty training. He earned stickers and got a new train when he filled up a chart. He figured out how to push pee out just to earn a sticker. He also knew he got five stickers for poopy so he tried to force out some poop if he wanted to get a train quicker. Whatever, it worked and now he's potty trained. So now I'm trying a Kindness Chart. He earns stickers if he can just be nice to people. 
It takes a lot longer to fill up a kindness chart. He had a rough day yesterday and last night he told me, "I'm sorry I was mean." Poor guy. There are some days when it takes all he has to be nice.
One day I was bragging on how nice he had been that day and he looked up at me with a guilty, little face and admitted, "Did you hear me say stupid real quiet?" My sister-in-law, Michelle says it's perfectly fine to think 'stupid' in your head. Ha! I guess I have to pick my battles!
He's wants to wear this I love N.Y. shirt that Aunt Shell brought him from New York everyday now. 
He had it on yesterday over at their house and was a little crabby. My brother said we should write on the back of his shirt. "But you, not so much."
Poor Cole....He is probably just tired.
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