My Friend the Munster

Dan and I had decided way back when that when Jo turned 5, we would re-decorate her room to whatever she wanted. At one point she wanted hearts and bells. Now she wants a haunted room with vampires. I talked her out of the "haunted room" and we are now going to do Scooby Doo... and vampires. And when looking at bed frames, she picks the girliest metal curly cue bed frames. Odd girl.

At Jo's school in Pre-K they start doing spelling test. She has had several and has done so well on them! One of them she only had one day to study her words and she got them all right, plus the bonus words!!! Go Jozie!

Jozie has had her first crush. She likes a little boy in her class by the name of Jack. I'm not suppose to know this info. She only told Dan and told him not to tell me. Woopsie! She even asked him if he ever wanted to get married when he was older! He didn't think so... So she didn't ask him part two of the question. If he wanted to marry her!!! I am in a world of hurt...

Not sure if she is being funny, crazy or a smart-aleck but Jo has started calling me "Your Highness" and asking what she can do for me.... Maybe I will use this to my advantage!

Still the first day of school... I get a call at work from Mrs Ivey! Apparently Jozie has no lunch. All she has in her lunchbox is water. She didn't know if Jo had a backpack (who would expect the super shy, long haired, ribbon wearing girl to have a blue and black batman backpack). What???? I call Dan, "Did I leave Jo's lunch on the counter? Am I going crazy? Her school called and said she had no lunch". Dan says he saw me put her lunch in her bag. No lunch on the counter or in the fridge. He gets a call from Mrs. Ivey. Dan walks her through what she has and the container it was in (2 Dinosaur shaped sandwiches and a cookie in a clear container). While on the phone, Mrs Ivey ask Jozie, "What's that under your desk?". Lo and behold, her lunch container fell out of her lunch box and apparently she didn't even notice. They all thought we sent our kid to school with no food. What a great way to start the year!

Today was the first day of Pre-K! Jozie's new teacher seems very nice. She is very calm... a little odd with a room full of 4 year olds. :-) I don't think Jo was very excited to go back to school. I think she's found it quite entertaining to stay either at home or with her great grandparents all day long. She chose a batman backpack and a littlest pet shop lunchbox. Perfect mix of hardcore boy and princess girl. When I left her in the morning, she awkwardly stood in the middle of the classroom, her shoulders scrunched up around her ears and just staring at everybody else. She didn't cry, but she certainly didn't know what to do. I had to leave and let the professionals take over. She is still the weird kid.

Jozie has decided that she really likes the Unicorn costume Dan bought for her almost a year ago. She wore it 2 days in a row. She even wore it to her Grandma and Papa's house. Papa took her out to the mall in it. Awww... to be a kid again. You can see a pic of her here. For her "going back to school party" she decided to wear cat ears and had me put cat make up on her. But her can be shocked by her affinity for costuming when her dad is a robot?