Who is this child of mine, with her tiny pierced ears and her rapidly lengthening yellow-blonde curls? Who is this girl who has finally outgrown her size 3 swim rash and her lactose intolerance and has taken to galavanting around town in my old glasses (with the lenses popped out)? This lover of animals and under-the-covers reader of Judy B. Jones paperbacks is as addicted to her hand-me-down iPod full of pop tunes and Lemony Snicket audiobooks as I am to my Blackberry. This, faithful readers, is my 5 1/2-year-old Z, possessor of a newly-rented 1/16 size violin, 23 Silly Banz and the proud recipient of an earned allowance* of $4 a week.
*In order to qualify for her allowance, Z must make her bed, put her toys away, practice violin and do any assigned homework.
Local readers, can you figure out where this picture was taken?
3 comments:
Nice post! The pic is at Brown Cow
Oh, she has far more than 23 Silly Bandz! At least twice that, and while she knows the exact number, I'm sure she'd be happy to count them again for you.
I love me some Brown Cow!
Interesting about your earned allowance idea. We started giving our Z an allowance when she entered kindergarten and she has chores to do, like practice piano, do homework, read, clear her place and clean her room. But the chores and the allowance are not related. I read somewhere that chores are what you do as part of a family that helps each other. And the idea of an allowance is to teach kids about money.
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