Today was one of those days when I really saw Lilly change. She is clearly becoming more comfortable and familiar with her new routine of going to school, being at school, and trusting that that will stay fairly constant. Every morning when she gets on the bus, I stand on the sidewalk and wave to her. She usually walks to her seat, sits down and watches and waves until the bus is all the way down the street where we can no longer see each other. I wave back the entire time, and a little longer than I probably have to, just in case she can still see me. We have done this every day since school started. Today she walked on to the bus, found her seat, then she peered out the window at me, flashed the sign for 'I love you', and turned to talk to her friends. She never looked back. My sweet Lilly girl is growing up.
One of Allie's favorite things to do is to make 'soup'. Not actual, edible soup, but a concoction of any number of things that can be stirred with a spoon. Sometimes she stands at the sink with a big pot of water and a spoon and I give her some spices, sprinkles, glitter, assorted things that look like they could be in soup, and she will stand there forever mixing and adding until her 'soup' is just right. The soup Du jour is a mixture of beads and string cut into teeny pieces. She has been sitting there for over an hour cutting bits of string and choosing just the right beads to add to the soup. It looks pretty, and definitely keeps her happily occupied. Oh, and the hat...I have no idea.
