Jar of Treasures

For a long time, I've been thinking about implementing a positive incentive program to encourage Rylan to behave well. That sounds really formal, but what it boils down to is this: \

We have a leftover present that we didn't give him on his birthday because we realized we'd overdone it, so it's been waiting in the top of his closet for an appropriate occasion to be gifted. Our scheme was this: Every time Rylan exhibited a positive behavior, we would give him one of those Little Flattened Marble Thingies to put in a jar (Ry calls LFMTs "treasures". He found a few buried in our backyard and was SO excited. He carried them around for a few days, and then they disappeared. Evie probably swallowed them.). When the jar is full, he gets the toy. After that, we'll come up with another incentive.

So today we went to the dollar store to pick up some LFMTs. While there, he kept gathering merchandise which I made him put back as we left each aisle. He was DYING to buy something, but today the answer was no. He finally settled on blue and green LFMTs and then we checked out. When we got home, I was explaining the program to him. To illustrate, I was enthusiastically

Ways Ry tried to beat the system:

And then you take me back to the store to get that bucket. Oh, look!! You get a treasure!
Do you have treasures in your shirt?
Trying to find the treasures to dump in the jar
Trying to award me treasures to go in his jar
Trying to negotiate the number of treasures something is worth.