Natalie started school and she's really loving it. She came home the other day with a bright pink nose. I asked her why she painted her nose. She said, "I didn't paint it, I drawed on it." "With marker", she added. No biggie, I thought. Surely the preschool uses washable markers. Nope. Her nose was bright pink for a few days afterward.
The funny part was, when I dropped her off at school that very morning I was hoping that no one looked real closely at her nose...it was a little stuffy, a little runny and it seemed to present the first evidence that she might be coming down with a cold. I didn't want to keep her home but I also wasn't terribly proud to be the mom that sent her little germy one to school to potentially get everyone else sick. Not only did she, in fact, get sicker later that day and miss the next school day but there is no chance that any adult in the classroom didn't get a good look at her bright pink (and stuffy, runny, crusty, boogery) nose!
Today, while doing a project at home, she said, "Mommy, the three most important words are DON'T. GIVE. UP." I loved that. I thought, what a great lesson to teach preschoolers. I imagined her teachers telling the kids this as they struggled with a challenge in the classroom or on the playground. I asked her who taught her such an important lesson, just knowing she'd mention one of her teachers.
Her response: "TV".
TV? Yup. Turns out TV was the "who" behind the lesson. Apparently it was in an episode of Abby's Flying Fairy School on Sesame Street.
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