Niece #2 was ready for our lunch date, which just for the record, was supposed to be in January - but Mother Nature has obviously had other plans for the last three weeks! So, off to school I went for lunch. I was told (by my now eight-year-old niece) to come to her classroom shortly before noon.
We headed out to recess, and then ate lunch. The weather was close to 50 degrees, so a large group of second graders played tag - and invited me to be a part of the game, which was nice, but did not work so well for me. I was an easy tag target! Let's just say that I can't run quite like I used to!
We entered the cafeteria for lunch, and then the questions began. LOTS of questions about the baby. One boy asked why I swallowed a basketball? Another classmate touched my belly and wanted to know what that was. How do I feed "it?" Why is "it" in there? When is "it" coming out? Do we have a name? Who picked the name? Is "it" alive? Can you bring "it" back to see us when "it" comes? My niece was quite quick with the question responses: She told all that "it" was a baby, her cousin, and that the baby ate what I ate. She told her classmates that we had a name picked out, but we were not telling anyone - not even her! Oh, and she told them, that we would not be able to bring the baby to see everyone because she was moving.
So, I headed out of second grade and back to my office work world. Who would have thought that one soon-to-arrive baby could create such excitement in second grade?
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