friendship | Lessons from my daughter

Tonight, we attended our first Wildcats game of the season.

We love hockey … Well, I love hockey. Jon likes to spend time with Emily and I, as for Emily, she likes to see old friends and she kind of enjoy the overall ambiance… Until it gets too loud!

We’ve been going to games for 5 or 6 years. We’ve had season tickets some years and attended what we could on other years…

Tonight, Emily had a surprise.

Her friend Tobie wrote and illustrated a story for her.

We’ve known Tobie for as long as we’ve been here I think. I believe we met through Special Olympics than her love of hockey got us closer. Her volunteering with Emily’s baseball team keeps us on touch during the summer.

She’s a really nice person! We really enjoy her and here are pictures of her gift to Emily.

The story is about Emily, her dreams and how she makes 50 millions selling doll clothes.

I read the story to Emily and she was really touched. She became quite emotional while listening to this beautiful story about herself.

I don’t think Tobie has ever received so many hugs from Emily before.

Thank you Tobie for being a friend to Emily.

Thank you for your amazing gift.

On Wednesday morning, Emily talked about her syndrome to her classmates for the first time.

During the day, the students received their yearbook.

During the same day, Emily’s yearbook was signed by a lot of her 8th grade classmates and not just meaningless signatures… I’m not sure if the kids all had to sign each others books or if it just finally happened this year but instead of teachers, EA, resource teacher and a couple of students which is normally what she gets…. Her classmates signed her yearbook!!!!

For most kids, this is a normal/regular thing. For my daughter, this is a new wonderful thing.

I had tears in my eyes reading some of the signatures.

Emily even got 2 phone numbers from girls in her class….

So, today’s post will be pictures of some of the best signature / messages Emily received! I am, of course, hiding the kids names but here it is.