# @allisonmathisjones on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C-768RyuRxd
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38348402-allisonmathisjones-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4eb731ee27.jpg
- **Posted:** 2024-08-21T15:08:49.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Allison Mathis Jones (@allisonmathisjones) — https://gondola.cc/allisonmathisjones

## Caption

This time 4 years ago, I was sitting on the floor in our tiny 2-bedroom apartment in Japan going over color and letter flashcards with Harper. She was just over a year old, and being on lockdown due to the pandemic, I didn’t have anything else to do BUT pour into my baby. I taught her a little silly but catchy song so she could to learn how to spell her name.

4 years later, she’s singing it to herself in her head as she writes her name on her papers at school (and she sung it in the interview when I asked her how to spell it 🥹). I see now that the time spent has not been in vain. The flashcards, the silly songs, the pretend play, the conversations that NEVER END because someone has a follow up question or asks, “why” a million times - it all matters.

If you’re in the thick of parenting a baby or a toddler, know that all the little things count and turn into big things that are shaping your tiny human and preparing her for the future.

And also, I must make being a wife look pretty fun since that’s what Harper wants to be when she grows up 😂

#backtoschool #kindergarten #5yearsold #momlife #kidsbelike

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- **Views:** 614
- **Likes:** 66
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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Allison Mathis Jones | @allisonmathisjones | https://gondola.cc/allisonmathisjones | Creator |

## Tags

momlife, 5yearsold, kindergarten, kidsbelike, backtoschool

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