It is not Emma's birthday today, although I hear a lot about her birthday lately. Ever since Mandy's birthday last month, Emma has been obsessed with her own pending celebrations on November 9th. She's had plenty of birthdays in between to remind her how much she wants her own.
You see, from September to December we have a corridor of birthdays of Emma's family and friends:
- Mommy
- Josh, cousin
- Benton, cousin
- Nora, friend
- Paul, uncle
- Grace, friend
- Priscilla, cousin
- Daddy
- Kelly, aunt
These are just the birthdays between Mandy and Emma. There are more after her birthday in November and December. It is quite the corridor for us. At each celebration, Emma gains new ideas about what she wants. She talks about her wish list all the time and every store we enter is full of possible birthday gifts that she wants. Here is a sampling:
- Barbies
- horses like aunt Juli
- princess pj's
- princess belt
- All the kid stuff from the Avon catalog including High School Musical slippers and bedding.
- dancing dress
- shoes that light up
- shoes for Sunday School
- shoes for working
- pretties for her hair
- drawing things
- paint
- motorized John Deere mule
- cow girl boots
- princess movies
- candy
- play kitchen
Emma has so many nice things already, I try and try to remind her of the toys she already has and the lovely clothes she already owns, but nothing sways her from dreaming/coveting nice new stuff. Her birthday will come and go and then it will be Christmas and she'll get more new great stuff that will get old before we know it. Any idea about how to teach a child to appreciate what she already has instead of wanting new and better? I still have this problem, so I feel pretty ill-equipped to teach her the principle.
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