tonight the husband took Josh to his coaches meeting. yes, Josh is playing soccer this summer, and the husband is coaching. how cute is that?? and now i will actually, officially, become a soccer mommy. (my sister told me that the title became official when she opened the trunk of my van and it was filled with water bottles.)
so, i decided to do something with Emily, since Josh was gone and Isabella was in bed. (not asleep, of course, filling her diaper and singing the ABC’s. that’s class.) so, i thought i’d teach her to play monopoly.
and this was where she blew me away. not only did she already know how to play…but she knew – by sight – that the side of the die with the five dots was the five. this has got to be something big. to learn to group the numbers by how they look, without counting.
am i wrong?
i know i shouldn’t be upset that i wasn’t around when she learned this. but it bothers me that she’s learning. she’s learning all these new things every day and i’m no longer a part of it. her reading gets better and better each day. she’s doing math! math! i didn’t know she knew anything about numbers other than, you know, the whole counting thing. she can set the pvr.
she is a person.
(a person who can beat her mother at monopoly. seriously. she landed on free parking three times. she gets the luck gene from her daddy)
god help me in september when my baby girl starts first grade. cuz i’m going to be a big ole blubbery mess.
song of the day: All Kinds of Time – Fountains of Wayne
video of the day: movie mistakes. these are hilarious.
I was just talking to a mom about this SAME thing at the park today. She said she was switching to part-time teaching because she couldn’t stomach that she’s a teacher and someone else is teaching her kids. I’ll be experiencing that more next year when the monkey’s in preschool. It’ll be weird, fo sho.
awwww! i know where you’re coming from. I, like the total freak that i am, blabbered like a baby when my son became potty-trained. On our recent vacation, he informed me that he was ready to use the men’s room on his own (he’s 4??!?) and refused to accompany me to the ladies’ room.
I like that concept…she’s a person. I’m going to try to remember that tomorrow. =)
hey Ali,do you miss The O.C.? just asking because i have some buffy videos from u tube.don’t our children grow up fast?too fast some days.my 6 year old amazes me some times shes so grown-up now.not anything babyish about her.and my 2 year old every day does some awesome thing that makes say wow.