The most exciting thing happened a few weeks ago! Cally and I have been talking about how cool it would be to have a friend who lived in the neighborhood behind our house for years. She imagined being able to walk through Gary and Rose's yard to play with someone other than her brother. Well, that dream became reality! Lila Treines and her family moved into a house two houses away from Gary and Rose. Lila and her dad came by to introduce themselves and the girls became immediate buddies.
It turns out, Lila is in Cally's first grade class, she loves reading, singing, drawing, and fairies. She brother who is almost a year old, and she's super sweet. Her dad is a teacher in Burlington and he mom is a day care provider who moonlights as a salesperson at the Gap.
The girls call each other all the time to play and they can walk back and forth between their houses so easily (Rose just requested that they tell her a joke every time they see her. And, they are pretty good about including Hazen in the fun.
Lila was really nervous about taking the bus to school. She moved from Winooski, so she didn't take the bus to school and walked. She decided to walk to our house with her mom and brother and take the bus from the end of our driveway. When the bus came, our happy-go-lucky lovely little gal lost it! She cried, she screamed, she clung to her mother, she did not want to get on the bus. But she did and Cal says she did stop crying pretty quickly.
Later that day, I saw this picture on Jericho Elementary School's Facebook page:
It's so great to see her showing empathy at an early age. It's so great to have a friend for her who lives so close by. It's a dream come true!
