Fehmeen received a message this past Friday from Emma's pre-school teacher. The e-mail was written in the style where one sandwiches a critique in between praise and encouragement. As teachers, we have written and sent out dozens of these messages during our tenure as educators but this is the first one that we have received as parental units. It was an interesting juxtaposition, that's for sure.

Here's a copy of that e-mail in all its roast beef on a sourdough roll glory. Oh yeah, see if you can figure out which trait Emma picked up from Fehmeen versus which one she inherited from me. Enjoy the sandwich.

Hello!

It's been a while since I've been able to update you on Emma. She is doing wonderfully in the class. She is finally playing on the playground with the other children and not staying by the teachers. She is doing activities on her own in the classroom though she still likes to "direct" the other children on what they should be doing. She doing much better at eating her lunch. However, please do not send the juice boxes anymore. We do serve milk or juice at lunch and she is just wasting the box juice. Yesterday I caught her squirting it all over her lunch area. She is a very happy and secure little girl.