I'm a Bad Mommy!!!

That's your picture, big sister?
You were kinda cute! (check out that smile-she may actually like us!)
Kailey's new love-snuggled in her sling
Big sister though she'd give it a try, too.

So, Ellie hasn't gone to school for like 10 days. And she didn't go for a week before that one day. So on that one day, Grandma and Grandpa picked her up as a suprise. She went home with them and then there was no school Friday when she came back. So this morning rolls around, we're getting her stuff around, packing breakfast, folding her cot blankets. I get in her bag to put her doggie in there and realize there are still art paper in there. Take them out and in the middle of them is a letter. Ellie is moving up to the next class. Earlier than we expected. Today as a matter of fact. Normally they have transition days, but since we didn't go to school, we missed all those. So I said to Matt "Oh my gosh, she's moving to the Fox room today." And she immediately freaked out. She does not do well with transitions at all. And, poor thing, no warning, just "oh, by the way" with backpack on her back and shoes on her feet. We told her some other kids would be moving up too. We told her to be a big girl and we'd take her to a special dinner tonight. We told her her new teachers were super nice and that we could give her old teachers a hug when she got to school. That seemed to ease her fears. But daddy said she cried a little when she left. I am having daddy pick up the new Hannah Montana movie for her today as a special moving-to-the-big-kid-class suprise. (Lately she's decided that Hannah Montana is really cool. To my knowledge, she's never seen the show or heard the music, but you know, Kyndal likes Hannah Montana and Kyndal is 6 and really cool, so it must be the real deal.) So I guess we'll see how it went. I feel like the most rotten mommy this morning, so I'll do what all good mommies do..bribe her back to happiness :)