Emma tends to approach things differently than Will and Lauren do. She's much more likely to fly off the handle, and she does have a tendency to be somewhat pessimistic. She also has a different approach to her school work. Every Monday, she comes home from school with her homework for the week. This includes a list of spelling words that she needs to practice by putting each one into a sentence. For some reason, Emma feels that she needs to be as creative as possible with this work. One of my personal favourites was when she had to use the word tree in a sentence. I believe she wrote:
I don't have it in front of me to provide you with her exact spelling of beautiful, but you can use your imagination. Recently she had the word right in her list of spelling words. This was her sentence:
Funny, no? She's a funny, quirky little kid who sometimes sounds like an 80-year-old lady. She told me a little while ago that she enjoyed singing in her choir at church because it "just blessed her heart". She's also quite the drama queen and in fact had a very heartfelt sobfest tonight because she just felt terrible about how mean she is to Lauren and Will sometimes. There may have been more to it, since I do recall hearing something about her "heart breaking into a million little pieces", but I have to admit that I was a little distracted by her pink pajamas, which appropriately had the word DIVA printed across her chest in cute purple letters.
Where does this come from, I wonder. Darren is a very even keel kind of person, and Will and Lauren seem to be very much that way too. I am somewhat less that way, but I definitely don't have Emma's flare for the dramatic. Her recent reaction when she wasn't allowed to take part in Communion was priceless.
I don't mean to imply that Emma is some kind of wild woman. Darren has always said that she's a character. And she's really very sweet and funny. I'm just wondering where it goes from here. What are we in for down the road, when PMS gets factored in? Yikes. At some point we should probably add hormonal to her list of spelling words.
You are beautiful, oh thou my tree.
I don't have it in front of me to provide you with her exact spelling of beautiful, but you can use your imagination. Recently she had the word right in her list of spelling words. This was her sentence:
Could you please put this on the table on the right? No your other right.
Funny, no? She's a funny, quirky little kid who sometimes sounds like an 80-year-old lady. She told me a little while ago that she enjoyed singing in her choir at church because it "just blessed her heart". She's also quite the drama queen and in fact had a very heartfelt sobfest tonight because she just felt terrible about how mean she is to Lauren and Will sometimes. There may have been more to it, since I do recall hearing something about her "heart breaking into a million little pieces", but I have to admit that I was a little distracted by her pink pajamas, which appropriately had the word DIVA printed across her chest in cute purple letters.
Where does this come from, I wonder. Darren is a very even keel kind of person, and Will and Lauren seem to be very much that way too. I am somewhat less that way, but I definitely don't have Emma's flare for the dramatic. Her recent reaction when she wasn't allowed to take part in Communion was priceless.
I don't mean to imply that Emma is some kind of wild woman. Darren has always said that she's a character. And she's really very sweet and funny. I'm just wondering where it goes from here. What are we in for down the road, when PMS gets factored in? Yikes. At some point we should probably add hormonal to her list of spelling words.
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It's hard enough trying to take all of Emma in right now....let's not look too far down the road. ;)
I find it actually really cool that even right from very young each of our children had such different personalities. I know I shouldn't be shocked by that, it was just neat to see.
We are crazy about the kids and love to see all this personality from each one. It's just funny with Emma because she makes us laugh and doesn't realize she is doing it. :)
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