The thorns don't seem too big..

So far, I have not gotten any sort of Q&A going for this series but I believe it is going quite well. She has got almost a full month of stickers built up, which she is very happy about because she knows that means she gets to have a friend sleep over.  Surprisingly, there has only been one night were she came to my bed and was successful, it was on a night after her father went back out of town for work. I gave in at about 4 a.m., but made her do extra chores the next day to earn her sticker.
Wait, this is not true, she was successful another night, just last week.
  She was sneaky about it though.
 Here's the deal. I have been having trouble sleeping with her father being gone during the week, and the most sleep I get is when he is home for the weekend and I get to fall asleep in his lap around 9 p.m. but this last weekend we had family in from out of town, so I didn't get those extra hours of sleep because we were visiting with them. So by nearly the end of the week I was running on E! My son wasn't feeling good and he went to sleep around 5:30, and well as awful as I feel about it, I turned on some cartoons for Sleepin Beauty and I crashed on the couch around 7pm. I vaguely remember her asking to wear one of my shirts to bed, in which I responded "sure, let me turn on my light" which I did, but immediately fell back asleep in my bed. I wake up to her turning off the light and climbing in bed with me at around 11pm, I look at her puzzled and say " What are you doing in my bed?" Her response " You told me that if I cleaned my room all up then I could sleep with you just this ONE time!" I said, "When did I say THAT?" " When you were sleeping of course." she says...I got up and locked the house up and checked her room, and Yes she did clean it, even made the bed. But I went to back to bed amazed at how I had been taken advantage of in a very weak state by a 5 YEAR OLD!!

Other than that, I am pleased to announce that Sleepin Beauty has stayed in her bed almost 1 full month now, and besides been sneaky the only obstacle I have observed is that she has bad dreams and says that she needs a "Bad Dream Catcher" like mommy has so she won't need to send her dreams to my room!

Also, her rewards have been: Baking Cookies, Decorating cupcakes for our family and friends for V-Day, and staying up 30 minutes late to play a few rounds of Dominoes with Mom, Dad, and little brother.