When I first met my Emily, I noticed her long fingers and toes. I thought that she was like a little monkey. And today she loves to climb and swing. Monkey bars are her favorite activity to do at the park. She even thinks of herself as a monkey. I try to remind her that she is a person who likes to do some monkey things. And besides, how can she be a monkey if she hates bananas.
My monkey in the middle, the girl whose smile can light up a room, my emotional little handful. My sweet Emily.
I had the best teaching moment with her yesterday. I actually seemed to get through to her with how important her words are...words can give life or give death. She had made Lucas cry with names she had called him and some mean things that she had said. She seemed to really hear me and take to heart what I was saying. Hope to smooth out her rough edges.
She has a wining smile and I would guess if we saw photos of you at her age there would be a very strong liking! Lovely photo and bittersweet story! She'll turn out beautifully...I promise!!
She's adorable and thanks for sharing a bit of your life with us. It's important to see beyond the cutie smiles and know these little people are in formation and have real experiences. Does that sound weird?
What a wonderful photo of your Emily. Love your story about her as well. You paint a wonderful picture, with the love of a wonderful Mom. Saving all this for your book, right? FAV
You can see her personality shining through! And yep, it is a little spicy! You're a good mama to sit her down and teach her in a loving way. With such gentle sweet teaching, of course she'll make a positive impact in the world!
Your children all have incredible eyes - she looks so sweet, and I can just picture her lighting up the room with that smile. Mothering is a difficult, but oh, so rewarding job. Sounds like you're doing well. Beautiful portrait.
She is beautiful. Gorgeous eyes and lovely smile. I think middle child syndrome is very real. Even though I have four middle son definitely suffered with it. He always considered he was hard done by. Have you heard of the crumpled paper story? Always a good one to teach kids how their words can hurt xx
@amandal It's a simple but effective story to tell kids who think their words have no effect on other people. A teacher speaks to her whole class and asks them to screw up a piece of paper and throw it, kick it, stamp on it. Then she asks them to make it flat as it used to be. Of course none of them can. This, she says, is how your words affect others. What you say can leave everlasting scars. xx
January 15th, 2014
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Parenting... walking a rope , balancing 24/7 dear friend... :-)