So much for empathy...

Last week, I was shocked when Dr. Candy (the ECDC Director) commented that the teachers were impressed by Cora's ability to empathize for her age. "My Cora? She's not empathetic with her sister... are you sure this is right?"

Don't think I'm starting to brag. Clearly she isn't empathetic to the needs of Mommy. For example...

In today's email update we learned that they read a book on thankfulness, then each suggested something he/she was thankful for to write on leaves to attach to the "thankful tree" in their classroom. Over dinner tonight, I brought it up.

Me: (really excited) Cora, I heard from your teacher that you read a book about being thankful.
Cora: Yep.
Me: What are you thankful for?
Cora: (blank stare)
Me: What did you tell your teacher you were thankful for?
Cora: (dead pan and matter-of-fact) lollipops
Me: Is that what you told your teacher? What did you write on your leaf for the thankful tree?
Cora: Just my lollipops. That's it. That's what I'm thankful for.

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On a different note, Cora and I had one of the most rewarding convos I've had as a mother (thus far).

We were on our way to school when Cora announced, "We forgot to say HI to Jesus yesterday at church"
I tried to explain that Jesus is everywhere so we can just say hi now. I'll admit, the conversation started as a way to curb a meltdown (have you ever seen that website about "Reasons my 2 year old cries" with irrational things that cause meltdowns? I didn't want our daily meltdown to be about not specifically saying "hi" to Jesus yesterday at church).

I won't even try to go into the whole conversation. It would just cheapen the memory. It's suffice to say that the convo continued through dropping Quinny off at school, all the way back through Mt. Pleasant and into downtown, and took some crazy tangents ("But WHERE is he in this car?" "No, the doctor made my heart Mommy" "Once, at our old house, a raccoon died, too".; "I think I see a boy over there walking on water") and apparently continued into bedtime with daddy ("We build bridges so that we can walk on water too and our feet don't get wet, right daddy?").

Teaching little souls what is good is a really tough job!