Emma
Our little girl is growing up. I know she’s only 3.5 but she acts like she’s 6 sometimes. Very in control, bossy, acts all knowing, and confident in her choices. Also, she talks non-stop, but maybe that part is only because she’s a girl.
[thumb:1191:l:l=g] For example, last month the city folks were fixing one of the roads that we usually drive on. So one day I went a different direction since the road was closed and of course Emma had to ask me why and I explained. We did this for a couple of days. On the third day I went the usual route and here is my back seat driver, “Mommy, you can’t go this way, you have to go the other way, they’re fixing the road.” Ok, so that’s not bad really. The bad part is this. You stop at a red light and right when it turned green she would say, “Go, mommy.” If I run a yellow light, guess who’d tell me that I was suppose to stop? Uh-uh.
This summer Emma enrolled in a new preschool/daycare. Her previous one decided to close after 20 years. So far we like the new school — she’s having a good time. But sometimes I’d pick up a pouty child and usually it’s because she’s in the little girl class. The big girl class is for the 4-year-olds. I told her soon but of course which kid gets the word soon. We did talk to her teacher and even though she thinks Emma’s ready, it wouldn’t be fair to the other kids her age. So Emma’s still in the little girl class. But because of this hoopla, Emma can write and spell her name, know more of the ABC (read and write), and also her numbers (she could count to 50 since she was 2, but didn’t recognize a lot of numbers). I told her that big girls can do the above :D White lie, ha!
We don’t want her to grow up too fast but it seems like she wants what we don’t want. Ahhhh….