Marshmallow Test

The boys are doing Spiderman and Cars puzzles at the table. Kiara is playing with Ava's new laptop. Miss Ava is still napping. The house is surprisingly quiet for the middle of the day.
We started our day with oatmeal and fresh blueberries. After breakfast the boys jumped off the chair in the bedroom saying (you'll never believe this) "I'M BUZZ LIGHTYEAR! TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!" They chased each other around the living room as Woody, Slinky Dog, New Buzz and Old Buzz.
Kiara and I sat together and sang B-I-N-G-O this morning and played peek-a-boo. She's so cute!
While the girls and Tyler slept the older boys did what scientists have called "The Marshmallow Test" A four year old child is given a marshmallow (I didn't have any marshmallows so we used whopper candies) and you tell the child "You can have this one now or you can wait for me to come back and if the marshmallow (whopper) is still here I'll give you two" Then the adult leaves for a few minutes leaving the child and candy alone with no other stimulus. I read books to the other kids in a different room while the one boy sat alone with his candy. Scientists followed the four year olds for almost thirty years after the test was completed. They found the four year olds who were able to wait for the adult to return and not eat their candy turned out to have more education, higher paying jobs and rate their overall happiness higher than the four year olds who gave into temptation and ate their marshmallows without waiting for the grown up to return. They speculate the ability to hold off desires for a short while in exchange for a greater pay off is evident from as early as age two. Our results? We should have some happy grown ups! None of the boys finished their candies while I was reading :)
For our art project today we are going to make frog puppets.