I keep forgetting what not to do... Tell your 4 year old toddler of upcoming events in advance. Due to E's inability to understand "next week", "next month", she gets overly excited and anticipates the event will happen that day. Once I made the mistake of telling her about a birthday party when we received the invitation a month in advance. "E you'll be going to Molly's birthday. Isn't that exciting?" Yes she answered and every hour she pestered me about when we were going to Mollys. Not till next month but with each day, she gets more upset. "E, let's go visit so in so..." " NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We have to go to Molly's" I told myself not to tell her of events until the day of. However I use the events to bribe E to behave. " You better be good or no (upcoming event)." Then she'll try to behave herself while pestering me and hubs about when are we going. (It's not for another few weeks)

So in 3 weeks E will be going to our neighboring park summer camp. We just registered for it and again we made the mistake of telling E. Every day since registering on Monday, E has been dressing herself and running downstairs yelling, " I have summer camp today" and we have to disappoint her by telling her it's not today. She'll be cranky and whiny for a couple hours but does the same thing the next day. UGH!! why don't I ever learn?!