I Am A Grand Auntie Today!!!!!

Reflections of How Life Is Right Now

It's That Time Again

It's frigid cold outside, so I have to busy myself with planning Emy's summer birthday party. I came up with a winner. This year, we'll be doing Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs! Shhh...Emy doesn't know yet. I can't wait until she gets home from school, so I can tell her.

If anybody sees anything "Ice Age" related please let me know.

Thanks.

Passive Assertiveness

As of the new year, we have a new schoolbus driver. The first two times he was dropping Em off home, he almost missed her stop, but a "really nice big boy who never even tried to hit me or nukking bad like that" from the bus, yelled at him to make sure he stopped, winning Em's goodwill forever.

And that poor bus driver made the mistake of...making a mistake, not something you want to do in front of my daughter. Today when she got off the bus, he had to smile at me - "she KEEPS reminding me of where she lives from the second she gets into the bus! She says, 'And remember I live at the top of the hill' everyday!"

hehehe...

Sibling Sistery

Much to my surprise and astonishment, Emy's fascination and appreciation for her sister grows by the day. She delights in Kat's milestones as much as we do. When other people pay more attention to the baby, then to her, she chimes in, "yea, I know, and she also does this...watch..." She begs me to take Kat into her school, so she can show her off to her friends. What's more, when I have to tell her to wait, because I am doing something for Kat, she doesn't like it, but then she doesn't really complain or take it out on the baby, either. I guess, when you plan for the worst, sometimes, it can throw you how wrong you were.

Blank Page Syndrome Might Not Be Genetic

I know parents are SUPPOSED to be wowed by their kids, so I usually try to hold back how baffled I am at Emy's artistic abilities, but... It's not that she can draw or make art so much that impresses me (though it does). It's how quickly and confidently she can create something from nothing. She'll open a new batch of clay and tell me, for instance, "I'm going to make a bird," and just like that from out of nowhere, a bird there is. She has no fear, no hesitation, just bam! And I guess the wow comes from me knowing that I either cannot do that, or I have developed the inability to do it.

Kat - Today's Expressions

Snow Play Date

Virtual House Tour

Emy, seeing a loophole, decided that if she had her own house, she wouldn't have to follow "our" house rules. So she transformed a computer box. If a TV fit in there, she'd be all set.

Happy New Year