google | Lessons from my daughter

I woke up this morning to the sound of notes played on the piano

Than I thought, that’s impossible, the piano is buried behind paintings and furniture…

For a second, I was scared that Emily found her way to the piano, this would mean an even messier living room.

Our living room is not always that messy!

Last Friday (9 days ago) I convinced hubby that we should upgrade our bedroom.

After 19 years, I figured we should graduate from college furniture to adult furniture. I felt we were ready to make our bedroom our sanctuary! I just don’t have a plan for our mix match furniture and now it’s in the living room.

Here are some before pictures!

I know, it’s just sad…

Our bedroom was never our priority.

Emily, her therapies, her school, her activities and so much more came first. I picked laughter and travel before furniture.

As long as the mattress was comfortable, I was perfectly happy.

Than some things happened…

Earlier this spring, Emily moved back to her own bedroom. Just like that she was no longer cuddling with me!

A couple of months later, hubby moved from overnight work outside of the house to evening work from home.

In the matter of 3 months, my sleeping pattern changed drastically.

I now fall asleep and wake-up with my husband and I love it. After 19 years together, we needed a bedroom make-over.

It’s a little cozy and we need to put something up on the walls but that’s how it looks now.

So this morning, I woke-up to the sounds of notes played on the piano.

But it wasn’t the piano.

It was Emily playing on a keyboard in her room.

I hopped in the shower and suddenly heard Emily in the washroom.

Mom, I am trying to play Mary had a little lamb.

Me from the shower – By ear or by looking at music sheet?

Emily – With my phone, I googled it. See!

Yes, she opened the shower curtain to show me 🙂

Next I asked if she could take a picture of that and text it to me?

And she did!

Yes, that really happened this morning.

Take that cri du chat syndrome! We can’t limit what Emily will do. She will not be defined by her syndrome, she is herself and she can google music sheet.

Whats the saying? When life gives you lemon, make lemonade?

I have a new saying now.

When google street view post the picture of your house for the world to see, let the world see it.

Obviously, it’s not the house you see… You see Jake!

I’ve never taken a picture of Jake quite like that. Only google would 🙂

I always try to showcase him differently… More like this:

My lovely husband who is also on our google street view picture knew this was coming. The picture was taken last July but he kept it a secret until Wednesday morning when he jumped in bed to announced that we were finally on street view…

I was somewhat traumatized by it all but Emily took it laughing. Shortly after witnessing the happiness of my child at seeing something so silly I decided to embrace the Emily way.

Once at work I showed my colleagues, who shared it with more colleagues who told their spouses…

Jake was an overnight sensation…

The next day, I found this on my desk:

Now when Emily saw that my team framed the now famous street view picture, she had the best belly laugh ever, I wished I had filmed her reaction as it was priceless.

Maybe I could ask google to airbrush him out of there… You know in case one day I would like to sell the house but when thinking about it, who cares?

Lets just all laugh, it’s more fun that way!