Zoo Day!

I am so happy I took the time to chaperon your field trip; I did end up getting you in my group of three wild beasts boys. I absolutely loved walking you into class, watching you start a typical day and standing up with my hand on my heart to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Yep, it's been a while since I've done The Pledge! But guess what? That's like riding a bike. I could pick out the morning kids from the non-morning kids (I am one of the latter) by the way Mrs. S did role call. "Good morning, J!" she would say. And J (our example student in this case) would reply "Good morning!"; but the kids who scoff at mornings would merely grumble something that sounded like "meh" and Mrs. S would have to do a double take. You are a total morning person and tend to pop out of bed with a smile on your face, a laugh in your heart and a bounce in your step. You are like a little ray of sunshine.

The zoo was at it's best. Most of the premium animals were out and about, unlike previous trips that left me feeling like I wasted a lot of money (and this trip was free!). The two other boys were not really your friends because apparently, they are a little bit evil (your words). I thought it interesting that Mrs. S would put them with me, perhaps believing that since I already turned out one really well-behaved small person, I might be better equipped to handle two more not so well-behaved small people.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

The first hour and a half was great and fantastic with three well-behaved little boys; but then we had lunch and that should have concluded the field trip. The additional hour and a half resulted in a lot of stern motherly type statements to the two other boys regarding hitting each other with water bottles and staying with the group; which eventually turned into a stern motherly warning to you because you just couldn't help yourself with all that fun misbehavior going on!

We eventually met up with a couple of other groups and the mom's in those groups were so at ease and TOTALLY not worried about losing their charges; so I thought, man, I must look like such an amateur; because me? I kept a hawk-eye on those boys who were not you (I trust you to stay near). I just assumed they were professional chaperons or mothers of more than one.

It was a lot of fun though, and I very much enjoyed riding the bus with you and getting to know the other kids and their (mostly) mothers (there was, one dad?). Since I plan on keeping you in this school for the duration of elementary, it is important that I get to know our surroundings and now I can't wait for the next chaperoned field trip!