What this means is that she gets to sit in a special chair beside Mrs. Garrow while the other kids have to sit on the carpet, and Mallory gets to do some of the writing on the chart, and she gets to pick a friend to go with her to take attendance down the hall to the school office (she thinks she is going to pick Carmindy). But most importantly of all, she gets to bring an item in the Treasure Chest to tell the class about, kind of like show and tell.
She has been talking about this day coming since the first day of school when Mrs. Garrow introduced the kids to the concept of Happy Helper, and today they have finally worked their way alphabetically through the class to the Ms and it is Mallory's day.
Here she was on Friday with the treasure chest, which she lovingly filled as soon as she got in the door. She took her job as Happy Helper very seriously, though, because yesterday Gramma and Grampa wanted to take her to the movies and she said she didn't think she would have time because she had to make sure the treasure chest was ready to go and packed in her backpack correctly. She must have checked it a hundred times over the weekend. Not sure why she thought this would be so time consuming yesterday; we did manage to talk her into going to the movies after all.
What she chose to put into the treasure chest is the princess charm bracelet she picked out as a souvenir at Disney World. The same charm bracelet I tried to steer her away from, because there were lots of cute necklaces and bracelets that I thought were pretty, much more so than this gaudy one; but Mallory was sold on it. She has not worn it at all since it came home with her, but she keeps it in a special box and checks on it frequently, so for $8 I suppose it is providing some entertainment-type value.Several times over the weekend she commented on how the kids in her class "are going to freak out" when they see her bracelet. Her words entirely. They "are going to freak out" because they will be expecting her to bring a toy but no... it will be a bracelet!! Man, she cracks me up.
Speaking of school, she brought home a picture from school on Friday that she was quite excited to show me. She had drawn the two of us, going for a walk and looking at a chrysalis in a tree together.
As for Liam, school is keeping him busy, too. He was very proud on Friday to bring home some plants that he has grown - some kind of wheat grass. Captain has nibbled these grasses down to little nibs now, which is kind of ironic because every once in a while I see cat grass selling at the grocery store and spend $4 on a pot of it for him and he never touches it. I think that jig is up now.
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