A couple weeks ago, Georgia celebrated her seventh birthday. This time in our nation's capitol of Washington D.C. That child has not had a birthday at home for the past 3 years. The pitfalls of having a summer birthday. She doesn't seem to care though. In fact I think she likes being on vacation for her birthday. Really- who wouldn't?
Let me just reiterate the fact that she is SEVEN. You guys-I have been pregnant free for over seven years now! Yay! Although in all honesty, I am sad about that fact as well. However, having older kids does have it's benefits, like being able to travel much easier and having threeslaves capable children to do my bidding. You know like oil changes and plumbing repair. Okay fine! Just unloading the dishwasher and making their beds, but still, at least it's less for me to do.
Georgia has grown up so much in this past year. She looks more like a little girl now than a kindergarten baby of last year. She reads like crazy and she can do so much for herself now. Although she still won't walk to my bedroom in the middle of the day. You know we have monsters in our hallway that like to eat little kids. Did I not tell you that? Yes, if a child under 10 walks down our hall alone, the monsters will get you. At least this is what I'm fairly certain Georgia thinks. She is also getting better with the lying. Well, let me rephrase that. She is getting better with telling us when she is lying or telling us a FIC-SHUN story. No, no. I didn't misspell that. That is how she says it. "This story is FIC-SHUN!!" That is something I started making her say to us about a year ago when we realized she was making up stories that sounded very real but in fact were not. One of these stories led me to talking to her teacher, when she claimed she was having problems with a boy at school and told a entire story about him that was not true. So now when she starts to tell a story that sounds like it might be a tad outlandish I give her a look and she will say-"Oh! This is a FIC-SHUN story!" Her sisters will even call her on it when they feel like it's being made up asking her, "Georgia is this a FIC-SHUN story?" The good news is she always cops to it and while she still makes things up, she at least lets us know she is doing so.
Regardless of all that, she will still start off with a lie now and then. Especially when she feels like it will make her sound or look better than another person, usually her sister. The last week of school was more or less nothing but fun times for them, as it always is in elementary school. Lana was telling me about all the fun things her teacher had planned for the week and Georgia was standing there listening. Now I don't know why this is the favorite fun thing for them to do at school but it is, wear their pajamas one day. Georgia and Lana love doing this. Lana's teacher had planned a PJ day, but Georgia's teacher had not, even though they had other fun things planned that week. The fact that Georgia was not getting to wear her pajamas, made her a bit jealous of Lana. I wasn't surprised at her response to Lana telling me,
"We get to have pajama day on Tuesday!! I'm so excited!"
Georgia looked at Lana and said, "Yeah well my teacher said we get to wear our pajamas watch a movie, have popcorn AND pizza!"
Now I don't know about you, but that sounds like a pretty kick ass day in first grade. I also know that about 75% of what she said was completely untrue. Even though she said this to Lana, I was sitting at the counter in the kitchen and heard every word. She looked over at me, caught me starting at her and before I even had a chance to open my mouth she said,
"I just made all that up."
All I could do was laugh. So far I think I have curbed the lying without squelching her imagination. Point in the mommy column! I only hope that when she's 16 she continues to tell me when it's a FIC-SHUN story or that she made something up. You know -like this...
"I'm spending the night at Luna's. Okay no. That's FIC-SHUN, I'm really going to a party over at the abandoned where house where there will be lots of drinking."
That's totally plausible right?
In the meantime, I will enjoy this win and wish my beautiful last baby a Happy (belated) 7th Birthday. You are the sunshine in our mornings and the laughter throughout our days, and I promise that is not FIC-SHUN!
Let me just reiterate the fact that she is SEVEN. You guys-I have been pregnant free for over seven years now! Yay! Although in all honesty, I am sad about that fact as well. However, having older kids does have it's benefits, like being able to travel much easier and having three
Georgia has grown up so much in this past year. She looks more like a little girl now than a kindergarten baby of last year. She reads like crazy and she can do so much for herself now. Although she still won't walk to my bedroom in the middle of the day. You know we have monsters in our hallway that like to eat little kids. Did I not tell you that? Yes, if a child under 10 walks down our hall alone, the monsters will get you. At least this is what I'm fairly certain Georgia thinks. She is also getting better with the lying. Well, let me rephrase that. She is getting better with telling us when she is lying or telling us a FIC-SHUN story. No, no. I didn't misspell that. That is how she says it. "This story is FIC-SHUN!!" That is something I started making her say to us about a year ago when we realized she was making up stories that sounded very real but in fact were not. One of these stories led me to talking to her teacher, when she claimed she was having problems with a boy at school and told a entire story about him that was not true. So now when she starts to tell a story that sounds like it might be a tad outlandish I give her a look and she will say-"Oh! This is a FIC-SHUN story!" Her sisters will even call her on it when they feel like it's being made up asking her, "Georgia is this a FIC-SHUN story?" The good news is she always cops to it and while she still makes things up, she at least lets us know she is doing so.
Regardless of all that, she will still start off with a lie now and then. Especially when she feels like it will make her sound or look better than another person, usually her sister. The last week of school was more or less nothing but fun times for them, as it always is in elementary school. Lana was telling me about all the fun things her teacher had planned for the week and Georgia was standing there listening. Now I don't know why this is the favorite fun thing for them to do at school but it is, wear their pajamas one day. Georgia and Lana love doing this. Lana's teacher had planned a PJ day, but Georgia's teacher had not, even though they had other fun things planned that week. The fact that Georgia was not getting to wear her pajamas, made her a bit jealous of Lana. I wasn't surprised at her response to Lana telling me,
"We get to have pajama day on Tuesday!! I'm so excited!"
Georgia looked at Lana and said, "Yeah well my teacher said we get to wear our pajamas watch a movie, have popcorn AND pizza!"
Now I don't know about you, but that sounds like a pretty kick ass day in first grade. I also know that about 75% of what she said was completely untrue. Even though she said this to Lana, I was sitting at the counter in the kitchen and heard every word. She looked over at me, caught me starting at her and before I even had a chance to open my mouth she said,
"I just made all that up."
All I could do was laugh. So far I think I have curbed the lying without squelching her imagination. Point in the mommy column! I only hope that when she's 16 she continues to tell me when it's a FIC-SHUN story or that she made something up. You know -like this...
"I'm spending the night at Luna's. Okay no. That's FIC-SHUN, I'm really going to a party over at the abandoned where house where there will be lots of drinking."
That's totally plausible right?
In the meantime, I will enjoy this win and wish my beautiful last baby a Happy (belated) 7th Birthday. You are the sunshine in our mornings and the laughter throughout our days, and I promise that is not FIC-SHUN!
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