A Little Girl and A Rainbow

Ellie's Bunny Story

My Farm Story

Addie's Flowers

This jewel was a drawing that Addie did about a month ago, with Mommy's help in describing how to draw what she wanted to do. It's a happy flower. What makes a happy flower? Grass, dirt, water, sun and moon - all at the same time.

Addie's Homework

Addie moved up to the Brown Bears classroom! Her first homework assignment was to create a poster all about her. Of course, Ellie got straight to work and helped Addie make it perfect.

Bella wait for me!

It has been long since that Addie has decided that Bella is her mostest bestest friend. No doubt they plan to keep it that way forever.

The problem?  Bella is 1 month older than Addie and as such, she is and always will be one school year ahead of her.

When Addie transitioned into Brown Bears, she was so excited to be in Bella's class.  I didn't have the heat to tell her that Bella was also moving up. 

When I picked her up the first day of being in Brown Bears, I was not surprised to find little Addie in tears.  "Mommy, I am trying as harder as I can to grow bigger as I can.  I eat my veg-tables and lots of healfy food. I am growing as fast as I can buy Bella isn't waiting for me! I just want Bella to wait for me! "

Heart breaking.

Ellie's reward

At the restaurant the other day,  Ellie found a wallet in the bathroom.  She brought it out to show Daddy. 

Ellie: I found this in the bathroom. I think someone lost it and I think I know who it is.
Daddy: Oh?  How do you know?
Ellie: Because I opened it to look at the photo and it looks like the lady who works here.
Daddy: How about you go give it to her?

Ellie did just that and the lady was so grateful that she gave Ellie a reward to say "Thank You."

At the end of the rainbow

Ellie: can we go see the end of the rainbow someday?
Mommy: oh I would love to do that.
Ellie: what's at the end of the rainbow?
Mommy: I am not sure.
Ellie: maybe there is gold!
Addie: maybe there's a cow!

Note: she is working on her Ls and Ds.

Sweetie

I love that Addie doesn't seem to know the word "daughter." Instead, it's "Sweetie." When she's playing pretend, she'll say something like "Mommy, how about I'm your sweetie and you are my mommy? How about dat?" Sounds like a good plan if you ask me.

First Grade, Here We Come!!!

Addie comes to wake me up this morning. Normally the girls climb into bed and we snuggle for 15 minutes, but today is different. Today is Ellie's first day riding the bus. Addie comes to the side of my bed, wakes me up, gives me a hug and then goes to get ready without complaint.

I worry about Ellie. No hug from her? Did her alarm even go off? I quickly jump out of bed to go wake her up so that she is sure to have enough time to get ready. I knock on her door. "Come in," calls a more awake and mature voice than I expect. She's completely dressed, ready to brush her hair and teeth. It took her 2 minutes, TOPS, to jump out of bed and put her clothes on. The rest of the morning was no different.

We leave the house super early, just to be absolutely certain that she catches the bus. The bus picks her up nearly directly across the street, but we leave 10 minutes early just to be 100% certain. To pass some time, I give her a quick lesson on how the even numbered houses are on one side of the street, while the odd number houses are on the other side. We track down the house where the bus stop is (we had the address on a slip we received in the mail).

Before I know it, the bus is approaching. Are all school busses that big? Really? I swear they have gotten bigger since I rode them when I was a child. Ellie does a little hop, tells me she loves me and doesn't look back.

She gets on the bus and it drives away! Just like that! The bus drives away, as though nothing out of the ordinary just happened. As though nothing went wrong. As though this happens everyday. As though millions of children around the world hop on school busses all the time. As though it's no big deal.

Yet my neighbor kindly reminds me that it's ok to cry. Yes, it **IS** a big deal even if the bus didn't seem to acknowledge it. I'm a bit surprised at just HOW big it really feels.