Not A Good Good-Night Routine

Dear Mackenzie,

-This morning, you were in my room and I started walking downstairs. You called out for me to wait for you, so I walked back to the top of the staircase. When I met you there, you said to me sadly, "You forgot me."

-School starts exactly at noon for you, so when you hear the church bells ring at noon, you know it's time to go inside the school building. We took a little longer to walk to school today because we stopped to look at Christmas decorations so when the bells rang today, we were still about half a block away from school. You got this really concerned look on your face and started running toward your school. You were so worried about being late! A few weeks ago, we were also half a block away when the bells started ringing and you started screaming, "Ms. Kiera! Wait for me! I'm coming!"

-Speaking of screaming, when I picked you up from school today, you screamed at the top of your lungs to your classmates, "Byyyyyyyeeeeee! Byyyyyyyyyeeeeee!" You really are nothing like JieJie, who was so quiet at your age that her teacher barely heard her speak all year!

-Yesterday when I picked you up, your classmate Finn walked past you and you demanded, "Finn! Say bye to me!" #bossy

-Every night, I do the same good-night routine with JieJie and Second GuhGaw where I say, "Good night! I love you! Sweet dreams! See you in the morning! Who's my favorite Lilabear/Sawyerbear?" I started saying the routine to you when I tucked you in tonight but you interrupted me and said, "I don't like saying good night to you. Only JieJie and GuhGaw like that. I just want to go to sleep. Mama, can you go away?" Ew.

Love,

Mom