first week of school - listening skills!

So I had a complete déjà vu moment on Wednesday morning when dropping Lilah off at (her second day of) school. I know I should be a better parent and not have snorted to myself when I overheard the teacher saying this to Lilah:

teacher: "So Lilah, today you're going to focus on listening to me and not talking as much to Fiona!"

Oh my, does that sound familiar... only 30 years ago! Ha! (And yes, I absolutely am talking about myself!)

Anyway, this morning (as we were getting ready to walk up to school) we were chatting and it would now seem like Lilah has definitely started listening to her teacher. Our conversation went like this...

me: "Have you done any physical education yet, like running around?"
lilah: (in a shocked voice) "No! We're not allowed to run in school... or push, or talk about poos or farts, or ANYTHING rude."
me: "Oh. Okay. That's good!" (silent snort)

Oh yeah, she's definitely been listening!

Now it's just me that needs to work on my game face! ...you know, the one that desperately wants to grin, but you have to control it, so it doesn't encourage a certain little someone?!

Phew. Parenting. It's pretty awesome!

Doesn't she just look like a bit of an imp?!