Dad and School

Having your father work at your school must be terrific when you are three years old. I knew that it was important to Maddie, but I really didn't how important it was until Andy was gone recruiting in the States for over two weeks. In short, Maddie was miserable, I was miserable... and we were really good at being miserable together! On the first night that Andy was gone, we made a sign that spelled out WELCOME BACK!!!. We then proceeded to color one letter each night before heading off to bed. This was our way of counting the number of sleeps until Daddy came home. I don't think she has a real concept of how long (or short if you're an optimist) two weeks really is so this helped her count it out each night. Big things happened while he was away. Maddie wrote her name all by herself for the first time and she had M Day at school where she was responsible to bring in items that started with her letter. Ms. Zhou, Mommy, and Maddie made muffins and she brought them to school to share! Of course we recorded all of this on our sign for Daddy! She was really happy before when Andy visited her classroom... now she's just down right thrilled to have her father work in her school!

Today was a big day for Maddie! When we visited her classroom, she did not see us so we were able to spy a little bit to see her in her true form. She's quite the bossy one at times, especially with Justin who she was very articulately telling how to properly put the glue on the back of the mitten in order to stick it on the banner correctly. She also go a new pink coat from Grandma Barbara.... such a monkey! Pink is definitely the color of choice these days!! Pink coat, pink Converse shoes... I guess she'll just have to dress up for the assembly tomorrow when her daddy comes as a special guest to read to the early elementary kids!