Gabriel has yet to get a happy face at preschool

since they started giving them out last week. For some reason he decided to go on strike and stopped doing his work and refused to participate in "circle time." He just sat off by himself watching everybody else.

Then he started to do his work again but he also decided to start spitting at the teacher and anybody and everything. When the teacher asked him to stop he just laughed at her. He is really testing the limits to see how much he can get away with.

Then I came to pick him up and she told me> He refused to apologize to her, so he got a "pow-pow." I'm sure that put a stop to the spitting, but we'll see what he comes up with today.

I showed Gabriel the names of all the nice kiddies who got happy faces and he seemed unimpressed. Instead he pointed to the names of the three or four public enemies who didn't get happy faces by their names and said, "See this one diodn't get a happy face, that one didn't get a happy face."

He's a rebel, I guess, but at least he's not crying anymore.