Bad Guys

Emily and the boys at school continue to be obsessed with "bad guys." The boys are very interested in Star Wars and Emily has been pretty interested in it as well. Apparently, the boys are all on a "bad guy team" and Emily is the only girl that they let on the team with them. That being said, I think that boys and girls interact very differently, and I don't think that she is always sure what to make of their behavior, which leaves her uncertain as to whether they really like her or not. This has created all sorts of complexities in her brain and many of our morning trips to school are filled with discussions about her role in everything. Personally, my hope is that once she starts at her new school in the Fall, all of this bad guy will sort of just melt away.

Emily has also developed a sudden interest in learning how to swim. Prior to this, she was content to wear her swim vest in the pool, but lately she would rather go without it. I think that we may put her in swimming lessons in the Fall, but for now, she is practicing her own semi doggy paddle stroke in our pool. She doesn't really want to put her face in the water, and she isn't really sure how to hold her breath, so this makes it difficult for her to really make much progress. I think this is where swimming lessons would be really good for her.

She has also become more interested in making sure that she is ready for Kindergarten. She has started working on her upper case and lower case letters in her Kumon books, and she seems to be more interested in writing in general. Her letter recognition seems to be coming along, and my hope is that she will have more opportunities in school this Fall to really put some of the pieces together. Sometimes, when we are trying to convince her to take some quiet time, we'll tell her to look at a book, but she usually responds with a semi-annoyed, "But I can't read!" I think it may bug her a little bit, particularly when she sees Abbie reading all the time, so it would be good if she could start to make some progress on this.

Other than school and swimming, Emily's summer has been filled with countless birthday parties. It is amazing how many summer birthdays there are at her school and there has probably been an average of a party a week for the last couple of months. Emily is always thrilled to go to a party, but I think the parents are starting to get tired of having the same conversations with each other over and over. :)