Standing in the hallway, waiting to have lunch with Loodle. Her good friend's class files toward the lunch room, and I surreptitiously lean out to give her a high five. Not realizing that the rest of Good Friend's class and Loodle's class see this, I am then assaulted by 25 more high fives, of ever increasing
Scene 2:
Eating lunch with Boodle and her friends. I ask what she did today, and she tells me of a play she and three friends wrote in Theater Arts. It involved forest animals. Loodle: "I'm a squirrel and my friends are helping me find my nuts." The 12 year old boy in me struggles hard not to laugh.
Scene 3:
Eating lunch with Loodle's Kindergarten class. Girl next to me asks me how many Nintendo DS I think she has. I guess 47, 12, 4 and then 2 which was the correct answer. When I asked her why she's got two, she replies matter of factly, "my parents broke up, so at Christmas my dad bought me one and then I got another one from my mom." Heart breaking into tiny pieces for this little 5 year old.
Scene 4:
On the playground with Loodle and her friends after lunch. She is standing in front of a tree, and starts rubbing her back against the tree, and I tell her that elephants do that, also cows on fenceposts. Her friend, a VERY energetic little boy who spilled his water bottle at lunch in a most unfortunate place, goes over to the tree and begins to rub his back. And rub. And say things like "oh, yeah", "oh, that's it" and "oh mama". Flash to me, VERY uncomfortable, saying "hey, let's play TAG!!!".
4 of you HAD to say...:
Hahahah that's brilliant. I can only imagine a little bit of surprise when you were assaulted...I mean high fived by the rest of her class.
Hilarious. I love those kinds of memories...in a few years when you go back and read your archives you'll be so glad you wrote them down.
Just a funny related to #2:
One of my Grade One students came running inside from recess wailing at the top of his lungs: "My nuts, my nuts, I lost my nuts!!!"
(Little did I know that his squirrel Beanie Baby was called Nuts.)
My son has similiar observations . He has lunch with Mara on Fridays ..sandy
Oh man... you just KNOW that my BoopaLoop will say something like what Boodle says in Scene 2, and she will be mocked FOREVER by Boodle, Loodle and LittleMan. That's what happens when you are the youngest, dear.
I agree that you will be so glad you wrote these down... your daughters? Not so much :)
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