Thursday, November 17, 2011

Finally, a bribe that works!

Madden is on an antibiotic twice a day for ten days. The problem we were having was that he absolutely refused to take his medicine. We tried numerous little things to try and persuade him to take it: offered him candy, took away his favorite bedtime story one night, held on to what he wanted to do at the moment, but NOTHING worked. When we tried to get him to just swallow it real quick, he would ALWAYS spit it out.
Well, last night we thought we would trade him taking medicine for going outside to swing. It worked beautifully!!!!! We just couldn't believe it! Madden is incredibly strong-willed, but he gave in right away! We were so proud! Obviously, you can tell by the picture above that every drop of those meds were absolutely worth it. Yay, Madden!
Trying to warm back up from being outside. He was so cute digging in his little pockets:)
All ready for bed...Well, it was bedtime, but he wasn't ready to actually go to sleep. I think Mike finally won the battle of that at about 9:00! Mike is so good at getting Madden down each night. I am very thankful!

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