Walking to school

Daddy finally got to walk Emma to school. He has had in processing stuff to do, but today he had extra time. He starts work Sunday, 24 hour shifts. Anyway, Emma has been waiting fo this day. All th way to school she kept saying, “I know how to get there, follow me.” Also, since she has a new watch, she tells us the time, a lot. She is getting less frequent, but the first couple days it felt like every couple minutes. 

Tonight we went to Chili’s for dinner, and it was fun. Thankfully we have had nice weather since we are still walking and taking the shuttle. We finally got our driver licenses today, but now we are on to the car buying process. I have a friend that wants to give us a car, but I not sure when we will get it. 

Walking to school

Whenever Emma gets upset/angry, she usually needs some space, and then comes back with a note hat she has written about how she feels. Sometimes it’s “no mom no mom no mom,” if she feels I have been mean or unjust in some sort of way. Sometimes it says that I need to say sorry to her. (Her opinion may or may not be correct in any given situation, she’s 5 after all.) This was today’s note. It was a good one. She was mad at me because I wouldn’t let her wake Daddy up from his nap so she could show him the green butterfly she made for him. (She was pretty hungry during this time.) She threw a fit and I told her to go to her room and calm down because Daddy wanted to go out for dinner and I wasn’t taking any little girls with a bad attitude. So this is what she came out with. It says,  “I’m sorry for having a bad way. I will not have a bad attitude when I get out of there (her room.)” with a picture of her crying.

This was on the back. I do like that she has found a more or less productive way to express her feelings and approach problem solving. And I’m glad her notes are not all about how mean I am.