Good News, Bad News

Several weeks ago, Aunt Amy read Mikaela a story called, Good News, Bad News. It is a great story to teach children to look for the positive (good news) in the midst of a disappointment (bad news).  Since then, we (mostly Aunt Amy) have taken situations in Mikaela's life to do this "Good News, Bad News" idea.  On Wednesday, the idea seemed to stick.  As a "treat" for finishing her dinner, she was going to have some popcorn.  Daddy was making it while Mommy bathed the kids.  Unfortunately, for some reason, the popcorn didn't cook right and was therefore ruined.  It was the last bag of popcorn we had.  However, since my birthday was the next day, Daddy had also gone to get cupcakes so we had one of those too for her.  When Daddy told her about the popcorn, and then the cupcake, this was Mikaela's response to me.

"Mom, the bad news is the popcorn is all brown and yucky, and we can't eat it.  The good news is Daddy got me a cupcake!!!"

Geography Lesson

Aunt Amy was teaching Mikaela where Texas was on the map in Graemma & Graempa's garage.  They discussed it, Amy pointed to it, & when quizzed later, Mikaela was able to find Texas on the map where Amy told her we live.  When it was time to go back inside, she told Mikaela to go in and tell Graempa where we live (Texas).

"Ok.  Graempa, we live in the wall!"