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Put Esme to bed last night fuming mad - got her up for 'just like school' this morning tired and wanting to go back to sleep rather than put on clothes... but she had to help take me to work... and she did.  She nearly crashed about 5 pm saying she was so tired, but it is 7 pm now and she has bursts of energy running around the yard screaming and hollering with the dogs.

We bought school supplies (during which she was quite unhappy she didn't get much choice), and some clothing (again, not much choice, I had decided ahead of time one yellow and one blue tshirt each, and underwear, and tennis shoes).  She tried very hard to get Daddy to buy her some other shoes instead.. but it was not going to fly.  I bought four and a half more yards of cloth for nearly as much money - to make more pants, shorts and dresses in the 'right' colors... it will be used, and it will be the same high quality.  I added up on my calculator and we spent almost exactly as much on the cloth and shoes and clothing as we did on the rest of the supplies.

She did get more choice in the snacks - and was happy about that.  She pointed out several items she wanted and they were not a bad idea.

At home this afternoon she had been writing all over sheet after sheet of paper, alphabet, her name, several words.  She was 'getting ready'.

And she did this in Minecraft - building a forest of letters in her forest of 'brothers and sisters and a Daddy.

Esme's alphabet with corrections from Daddy


Toothbrush festival, new ones and old ones, playground swings and a slide
(Saturday work)


Writing work from Saturday morning.  This was an empty tablet I placed on her desk without mention yesterday after school supply shopping.  She has also been drawing all over her easel in her room and trying to erase the marker with her hands only to wipe it on her knees (luckily it is washable!)

We did some work on brushing her hair herself tonight .. lots of tears.. she is really not liking that idea.  But I got her to take a good stab at it.  We'll give her a few weeks before we make a decision about if she can learn from the other little girls just how important it is.