Temporarily Replaced

We got Emily a play pizza last night. She LOVES IT! So much so that last night when I had to wake her up to give her some cough medicine, the first thing she said when she opened her eyes was, "Mommy I want my pizza". She sleepily took her medicine and went right back to sleep. Then this morning I barely had her door open and she jumped up and said, "Mommy I want my pizza". She usually asks where her daddy is . . . but his whereabouts have been temporarily replaced for a toy pizza : )

Emily has an Easter Egg Hunt at school today so she wore her bunny shirt that I appliqued last week:
I have had to "grow some patience" with Emily lately. I've learned that toddlers LOVE to do things for themselves, but have mercy they "dilly dally" around so much! All I hear all day long is: "No Emily do it" and then she has to put back whatever I started and then do it herself. Only she might see a toy along the way and start playing with it or decide she wants some milk or she starts trying to take off her shoes . . . or whatever . . . oh my word! It now takes 30 minutes to load laundry in the washing machine, it takes 15 minutes just to get Bud some food, it takes 10 minutes to get in a car seat, and the list goes on and on . . . .Lord give me patience : )

Her teacher told me Tuesday that they had asked Emily not to climb on the table. One of the teachers turned around and Emily watched her like a hawk while she attempted to climb on the table again. The other teacher said, "Emily" and she jumped down off the table and said, "I sit in time out". Looks like we have a sneaky child on our hands! She knows what is right and wrong but does it anyway while she thinks no one is looking. So on the way to the car, I asked Emily if she obeyed her teachers today and she said, "No, Miss Nisa said No No climb on the table but I did and sit in time out." That girl knew EXACTLY what I was asking about. She's a smart one . . . we are going to have to keep an eye on her!