Introducing Timothy!

Meet Timothy! Timothy is the classroom puppet. Every Friday, Timothy gets to go home and spend the weekend with someone who has managed to not change his color from green ALL week long. Needless to say, Timothy has NEVER been to our home...until this weekend!

Every week since August, the Chunster has announced on Monday morning that she is going to be really good and not have to change her color or sit in thinking time. Every week, this goal has eluded her. This week, she had a new sense of determination. Last week, she mentioned it every day. Over the weekend, she talked and prayed about it. On Monday, she proudly announced she had not changed her color. On Tuesday, she met me at the front door with the same news. On Wednesday, she proclaimed that her new, big girl tennis shoes must be "Behaving Shoes" because she had made it 3 whole days. On Thursday, we cheered and high-fived because we had made it through Day 4.

On Friday, I was on pins and needles ALL day. First of all, she wanted to wear her new, sparkly (read: hideous) pink shoes for Valentine's Day. These are not her "Behaving Shoes" - but they are new. I told Amelia that ALL shoes over a size 9 are "Behaving Shoes." She went and checked the box, and sure enough, her pink, sparkly shoes are a size 9.5 (shocker!).



Also, Friday entailed singing Val-o-grams, a pizza party, and way too much sugar. I just wasn't sure that the necessary amount of self-control could be exercised on this day, but Chunie and I talked about how hard it would be to be calm, and not jump, and not talk, and listen and mind. She said she could do it. AND SHE DID!!!!



The Mama is SOOOOOO proud.




Happy Valentine's Day!