Hannah went to school and unless she was pretending, she seemed ready and excited. At the breakfast table she was sad and didn't want to go, but as we got into the car she had a completely different attitude. She said she was excited and she knew today would be fun. I told her that there was a surprise in her backpack and if she went in and didn't cry and ask to go home, she could open her surprise at her desk after we left. I hope it made her happy and comforted to have the note and rock. I couldn't find her courageous rock last night, so I had to send in her XOXOXOXO rock! She must have lost her courageous rock somewhere in her covers!
Today is Emma's last day of summer vacation. Tomorrow she starts kindergarten. In typical Emma fashion she is at no loss for words this morning. These are some of the hysterical things she has discussed with me already this morning.
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Two more funnies: Emma went to Trent's house to play this morning and she came home all excited about Trent's new fighter fighter truck and fighter fighter man. (fire fighter truck and fire fighter!)
She just heard Hannah turn the tv to Phineas and Ferb and she ran down the hall yelling, "I love Phin-a-see and Ferb! I know she is about to outgrow her use of incorrect words, so I have to write these down so I can remember them! As a side note, I can no longer hold Carter and use the keyboard. He stretches out from my lap until he almost face plants into the keyboard so he can pound on the keys too! I'm having to hold him at bay right now and he is screaming!
On the way to school I told them that cousin Quincey had gone to college and we needed to pray for her. Emma asked what we should pray. I told her to pray for her to do well in school and to make wise decisions. Emma immediately said, "Quincey will do fine. She is a great, great, great, great, great super teenager. She is a teenager still, right? Is she an adult yet? Well, I know she will do fantastic because she already makes tons and tons of A's. She went to two smart schools. ??? and she will know all the answers in math and reading. Does she do math and reading in college? Well, whatever she does she will be super smart moving on to college!"
Then on the way home from dropping off Hannah at school we saw a vulture in the road and it wouldn't move and we nearly hit it. Emma asked me what it was doing in the road and I explained that they like to eat dead animals. She then asks, "What animal was it?" I said probably a squirrel. Emma replies, "Yeah squirrels are the only ones that can get squished. Ants can get squished too I guess, but not pincher bugs, they are too fast. And not dinosaurs either. People say they lived along time ago, but they are just pretend. They didn't REALLY live here." I explained that yes they did, but they weren't alive any more. They were extinct. Oh, she thought that was the funniest thing ever. She made up a song to sing the rest of the way home. Stomping her feet and clapping her hands she proceeded to sing "Dinosaurs don't live any more. Dinosaurs say, I stink! I don't live anymore. I stink, I stink, I stink!" Oh, my her kindergarten teachers are in for a treat! It makes me sad that I won't be on the receiving end of all of her funny stories. Her teachers will have her more hours a day than I will and they will get to hear her hilarity's! Maybe homeschooling isn't such a bad idea after all! I'm going to miss her! This is what she spent her day doing yesterday. She's already asked me if her class will have a dress up center because she didn't spy any in her classroom when we visited!
When I told her this morning that the house would be so quiet and lonely without her tomorrow, she responded, "Yes, that will be a sad sound. No sound in the house is a sad sound. But the ice cream truck, that is a yummy, happy sound."
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