A few notes about the latest on our little girl:
- She's stubborn. This isn't anything new, heck my parents have been saying she's just like me at the same age for years. Case in point...see that picture up there? That was her attempt last night to write her own name, which she decided to do all by herself. She made it through the K, A, T, & H. Not too shabby for a newly minted four year old. I decided to take a picture for this post. She decided she wanted a picture with her camera (which by God, one of these days I will find the cord and take all the pictures she's taken off of there). She was insistent that she only wanted one of the cameras to take the picture, why, I haven't a clue. Well, I beat her to it and she was not pleased. So not pleased in fact that she grabbed a NEW peice of paper and proceeded to write her name again, this time making it to the I. She took a picture of that one with her camera.
- She'll happily tell you she was good in school today..."I didn't spit." Spit, you say? We had an "incident" last week. School has started tying a small bit of yarn around each kid's wrist in the morning. It is your "listening band". You are expected to be a good kid all day and if you keep your listening band until the end of the day you get to visit the office and pick a prize out of the basket. We're talking cheapo dollar store stuff...real treasure to the preschool set. Our good little girl has been getting a prize everyday, except for once last week. We were told that she spit at another kid. When Ted asked her about this and inquired as to why she spit, she replied "She spit at me first." Ahhhh, good old retaliation. Katherine also fessed up later that night that she "punched her in the chest too." Hmmm, those may be valid reasons for having your listening band taken away. I found out from the teacher the next day (which the whole place was shocked, I might add, that Katherine got her band taken away) that Miss K got so upset that her listening band was cut off that she showed that frustation by slapping the other girl (who had just lost her listening band as well). I didn't ask but I am sure that got her a time out as well. The lesson of that day has sunk in, Miss K happily retorts at pick up time every day that "I was good today, I didn't spit." That's my girl.
- She has become quite attached to Teddy in the mornings. Ever since he started in the infant room she has been dying to check the place out. Usually, she has to just peer in from the door because of the no shoe rule and I think they like to just keep the germy much more active older kids at a distance from the young ones. Well, one morning a week or two ago Katherine and Teddy happened to be the first kids to arrive. Since Miss LaRue (director) was trying to get some things done in the office, Katherine got the unique pleasure of taking her shoes off and sitting in the infant room with Teddy and Miss Mary for a bit. You might have thought she died and went to heaven. Well, since then, she's hooked. Every morning she wants to go in there, except well, she really can't, that one day was kind of the exception to the rule. I think we're all regretting opening up that can of worms with her. We've had some upsetting mornings where she declares on the way to school that "Teddy needs his big sister" and tears up when she is steered into the other classroom with her friends. I know from other situations that nothing is going to help this one but time cause she isn't going to forget that one day any time soon.
- She seems incapable of playing by herself lately. Probably closer to the truth that she can do it but she doesn't like it. I think may have to do with a combination of playing with other kids all day at school/daycare, a summer of visits to Papa and Gram's houses where, let's face it, she was the center of attention (and rightly so) and Ted and I being agreeable to as many of her playing requests as possible. Except, sometime we just need to get some things done or we really want to do some adult things rather than play tea. Ted played with her for a bit last night and then told her that was going to do something else. At some point I heard him say "You can play by yourself Katherine" and her response of "No I can't!" We need to work on this one because, let's face it, there's a good deal of life where you are left to your own devices. I know some of this is baby brother related too, she's watching us dote on someone who can do nothing for himself right now. She wants us to dote a little more on her too. Here's hoping some of this changes as Teddy gets more mobile, cause I think once he starts getting into "her stuff" she's going to want to be left alone a bit more.
Volume 2 probably isn't that far off...
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