Show & Tell

Kaleb was the special helper today at school. After being the special helper, the next day, that child gets to bring something in to share with the class. They have done lots of different themes. Things like "The Estimation jar": you put a bunch of the same object (cars, legos, candy, pasta, etc...) in a clear jar and the kids guess how many is in the jar and then they count how many and see who was closest. They have also had a "Guessing jar": You put an object into a covered container and you write 3 clues to help the kids guess what is inside. Kaleb took his green froggy and we wrote things like: It is green. It hops. It lives in a pond. Oh and my favorite was the "Equation jar: you put objects into the jar that make a mathematical equation. Like 2 cars plus 3 trucks equals 5 vehicles. Or 2 Hersey Kisses and 5 Red Hots equal 7 candies.

The whole class has participated in each "jar". To Kaleb and my complete surprise, the next "jar" turns out to not be a jar at all, but Show and Tell! How fun! So Kaleb came home from school today just beaming!!!! He gets to bring something for Show and Tell on Friday. We talked about what he was gonna bring and he thought about "blitzwing" his new Transformer that is a triple changer. For those of you unfamiliar with Transformers, they are usually just a 2 change kind of toy from robot mode to a vehicle mode. So a Triple changer changes from a vehicle to a airplane to a robot. It is a big deal and really cool. He recently got to buy the Blitzwing after his ear surgery as a reward for being brave and cooperating with the nurses.

He asked me what else he could take and wanted some options. So I suggested that he could take the ultrasound pictures and show them to his friends at school. His WHOLE FACE lit up! There was no more discussion. He had decided. He wanted to take the ultrasound pictures to Show & Tell!

I, of course, did not want him to take the original ultrasound pictures to school so off to Kinkos we went. We made copies of the pictures and the trimmed them down. We pasted them to a large piece of colored paper and Kaleb & I labeled the pictures. Here is how it turned out:

And here is our BEAMING Kaleb holding his story board!

Kaleb is just so excited about his new sibling! He talks about when the baby will be born, and asks if he will be there. I promise if that if at all possible, he will be there. He wants to know where the birth pool will be set up, who else will be here, if the baby will have a tail (umbilical cord) like Mason. Full of questions and excitement! It is an awesome time for our family!