We have been trying to get Emily to ride a bike without training wheels for almost a year. Santa brought her a bike last Christmas and the training wheels had been left on until a week before Christmas break this year. While trying to bribe her to ride the two wheeler with only two wheels, we told her she could ride her bike to school once she was proficient on just the two wheels. Well as you may know, once she decides to do something she does it. She learned to ride that bike over the break and was ready to ride it to school. We informed her that she could only ride on Friday’s because daddy is off work and she has to wait until the sun is up. I drop her off the rest of the week and it looks like it is still midnight. (I HATE changing from daylight savings time) So she rides her bike to school on Friday. Josh watches her from the porch and checks later to make sure she put the lock on tight. Well on Friday, Josh had taken his mother and Jacob around town to apply for jobs, for her, not him and was at the house with a burnt out bubba, all three were taking a nap when at 3:10pm Josh hears “beep, beep, beep” someone coming into the house. He gets out of bed to find Emily and her best friend Chelsea in the living room. Now mind you, Emily was still supposed to go to YMCA and Josh was going to pick her up and she would ride her bike home then. What seems to have happened was instead of walking to the cafeteria to go to YMCA, she saw Chelsea in the hall and the girls formulated a plan of escape. Emily would skip YMCA and they would walk home. Now, I did not know this until MUCH later that night when Josh and I had gone to dinner and he told me. I wanted to ground her, take her bike away, make her walk with the Kindergarten class to YMCA, and never let her see the light of day again. But Josh talked me down and she is not allowed to ride her bike to school this week, and we will take it from there.
Also notice in this picture of Emily and Chelsea how much makeup my child has on. ARGH!! I don’t know what I am going to do when she actually becomes a teenage and isn’t just acting like one.
2 comments:
That's a tough one. Hope her school isn't too far away!
This couldn't be a result of the Mother's Curse? You know the one that is usually uttered in a exasperasted voice... "I hope someday you have a child just like you." Take heart. Someday you will get to watch Emily gnash her teeth about HER daughter.
(trying not to laugh) Mom
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