I still love you mom.....................

Kate LOVES to write us all little notes.  She may write them on a piece of paper at her desk hidden away in her closet or she may write them on Wesley's easel in the living room.  But regardless of where she writes them, she has given us quite a few chuckles with some of her notes.

Like this one she wrote me last night.........

The back story behind this note is that (totally my failure as a parent) Kate has not perfected tying her shoes.  Its my failure as a parent because I personally hate tennis shoes and Kate does not care for them and she would prefer the cutsie tootsie slide ons and therefore Kate does not own any lace up shoes.  For PE she now has to switch into tennis shoes and has been relying on a (very gracious) classmate Natalie, to help her tie her shoes.  So I decided that I was going to really focus on working with her on tying her shoes so that she doesn't have to rely on someone else's help (first of all....I think that when I was in Kindergarten they taught us in school....now this is no longer a part of the basics...probably b/c they expect kids to know so much so early that they assume most kids should know this coming into Kindergarten....not so much!)
Anyway, after several sessions of working with Kate for 30 minutes on end, she was getting super frustrated.  I admit..I was getting equally frustrated.  I probably used the words 'make a loop to look like a bunny ear' fifty bazillion times!  Last night Justin could tell we were getting frustrated so he came in and tried to help her........but even walked away mentally exhausted.  So I went into the kitchen to make dinner and she brought out this note to me:  'I still love you mom...I never saw a bunny'  (Of course she wrote it in her own Kindergarten language).
And just for the record.....Kate knows how to tie her shoes, although not very tight but I think that is very normal for new comers.  I think that its going to be hard to keep her abreast of her new found skills though because its something that needs repetition and once again I repeat....we do NOT like to wear lace up shoes in this house.....sigh..............