If you can believe it we actually di not have a single play date or social engagement all weekend. We were all kind of stir crazy by the end of the weekend and I think that will be the last time we do that for a while!
Ally sported a new outfit from Great Aunt Martha – thank you for the super cute set.
The other picture is an Ally original. She was in her room, angry with us for something. We have a policy about how if she is unhappy or going to pout she needs to do it in her room – away from us. It hurts our feeling and makes us feel bad so she needs to do that in her own space. Well she was angry with us - I think we said no more TV – and boy was she ticked off. Screaming, yelling etc., but all in her room. I went to check on her after a bit and in her room she had torn up a tissue into tons of little pieces and drawn that picture. This is how she expressed her anger - a tissue destroyed and a picture of angry sad faces. I was so proud of her. She cleaned up the tissue all by herself when I asked her to. And we talked for a bit about her feelings. I told her I was proud of the way she dealt with her frustration – tearing up a tissue is a good safe way to be angry and drawing a picture of your feelings is excellent. We talked about how its ok to get angry – it happens – and we need to sometimes understand it when people we love are angry or sad – and it does not mean we don’t love them. Its ok. But its important to talk about it too.
Ally was so tired later in the day she took a 2 hour nap – she said at lunch she was tired and I asked if she wanted to go to sleep? She said yes, got in her bed and went to sleep for 2 hours!
Sunday we went to church for the first time! We enrolled Ally in Sunday school at the same church her friend Erik attends with his family – it’s a UCC church in the same building as her old preschool. She had a great time, and so did Becky and I. It will now be part of our weekend routine to attend service.
We did some work in Ally’s room to organize things.
Ally played “adoption” with her babysitter – we have been talking about Ally’s adoption and she knows we had to fill out lots and lots of paperwork / forms etc. to get permission to adopt her. Lauren said they spent about 45 minutes creating forms and papers to adopt Baby and Dolly.
Sunday evening Ally and I went for a walk and ended up at her school. She showed me how she can climb up to the top of the play structure!
It was nice to have a quiet weekend, but I am ready for this upcoming one filled with Guat Girls, 2 birthday parties and church!
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