Jessie's kindergarten stories...

Here are some of the stories that Jessie has shared with me and her daddy her first two weeks of school. They are so funny!

First story is from her first day of school:

I was crying before I had to leave her...her teacher allowed us parents to walk in the classroom and be with our little kindergarten-ers while she read to us a story..."The Kissing Hand." Sweet, sweet story. It definitely brought tears to my eyes. And before we left, our little kids placed a heart sticker in our palms and off we went, leaving them there. It was so sweet. I started to cry, Jessie looked at me and said, "It's ok Mommy, just wipe your tears on your shirt sleeves."

Second story, also from her first day of school:

Later that day when I picked her up, her teacher's assistant told me, "This girl is funny." She told me that Jessie said, "I believe the gingerbread man pooped out here." I thought, lovely, my kid is talking to her teachers about poop. (They were talking about the gingerbread man. They are studying the different nursery rhymes, that's why she is talking about the gingerbread man.)

This is a funny story:

Preston came home and told me this story...Our babysitter, Shannon, saw Jessie while at school, she asked Jessie if she had been to PE yet. Jessie answered her asking, "What does that spell?" Ha ha! That kid is hilarious!!

Another story:

Jessie told me the other day about these two big girls that knew her name, but she didn't know theirs. They both told her that her daddy was funny. So she continued to tell me other stories about some of her friends who she played with. She told me one story about one of her friends, Brynly not wanting to play with her. When they went to the bathroom, this must be when they have girl talk, because she often tells me tells about what goes on in the bathroom, she said Brynly asked what she was doing. She said, "I'm being funny like my daddy." She went on to show me what she was doing, she was putting her hands up by her ears, and sticker her tongue out making a funny noise. That's her idea of being funny. I wonder if that is what she pictures her daddy doing when he's being funny. ha. She is a funny girl! I have a feeling she will be like her daddy.

Uh Oh, she got her card turned: She told me that she got her card changed. I asked what she was doing for this to happen. Her response to me turned in to her recreating the moment. She said, "Mommy, we were kicking our feet under the table like this." She shows me, she is kicking her feet, not touching the floor, back and forth, and the little boy that sits across from her is doing the same thing. "Then Jack" who is that little boy, "kicked me like this." What she showed me was that he just kicked her, nothing hard, just his foot touched her leg. "And it hurt. So, I pinched him like this."

"Ouch!" That was my response back to her as she showed me how she pinched him.

Right then, I realized that this little girl of mine, will be just fine in kindergarten...I didn't need to worry about people picking on my girl and getting away with it! Although, I do believe had it been a girl who did this, her reaction would have been different and probably more forgiving and not so quick to react in this manner. But boys, watch out, Jessie doesn't take junk off of boys!

However, even though I sort of felt a feeling of, "Yeah, that's my girl, way to take care of yourself," I still had to have the think before you react, like, "Maybe Jack didn't mean to kick you that hard. You should ask him if he meant to do that. See what his response is first. And then go talk to the teacher. Don't kick, punch, pinch, or hurt people as a way of responding to their actions." You know, the talk you give them so that they don't turn out beating kids up! :)

And that's it for now...as the year unfolds and it's note worthy, I'll try to write about the events...