Short Attention Span?

Growing up and learning about kids, being in nursery, and being a Mom everyone always seems to talk about how little kids have very short attention spans. They just fly from one thing to the next so you've got to be ready with a million things to divert or grab their attention. There is definitely some truth to this statement.
However I have learned that a short attention span does not mean a short memory - at least in Eli. The other day we bought some plastic stacking rings. Mostly for the new baby but thought that Eli would probably check them out as well. He desperately wanted to play with them that night, but it was bedtime so we told him he could play with them tomorrow. The next morning the first thing he says is Down, tomorrow and then runs to the rings and says - Open.
Things like this seem to happen all of the time. If he asks for candy at breakfast and we tell him he can have some after his nap - the first thing he does once he wakes up is run to the candy jar. Morgan told him that they would throw discs "later," we go busy Eli was exhausted so we were going to put him down to bed but he started saying, Disc, disc. So outside the boys went to throw some discs for a while. (We are trying to keep our promises to him, so we couldn't put it off another day.)
Anyway - the moral of this story is just because kids may have a short attention span that doesn't mean they won't remember you said they could go do something fun just because you've got them distracted for the moment.