Starting Early
Posted on April 25, 2008
John and I have never been sticklers for the exact date of milestones. We don’t celebrate our anniversary ON our anniversary, we usually give each other birthday presents the day they are purchased, even if it is weeks ahead of time, and Christmas is a month long event for us. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that as soon as we got the box of presents from my parents, I let Chloe open them. I am sure there is some specific reason, probably related to teaching delayed gratification, for making kids wait, but I haven’t bought into it. So, here are the pictures of the beginning of her second birthday. It will also be a month long event! (Oh, luck has it that her birthday actually falls on a Saturday, so we are having her party on her birthday, that’s something right?) I have included pictures of her invitations as well which were all hand made (thanks again, Sara!). Stay tuned for more birthday festivities!
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I don’t really know anything about kids (well, maybe a little, since I worked with 3-4 year olds in daycare for a few years)… BUT, it seems to me that delayed gratification for the purposes of teaching her something at the age of 2 would only serve to be frustrating as she wouldn’t understand why you were making her wait (if she was aware she had presents in the first place).