With so much excitement I could hardly take it, I grabbed my Cubs bear and headed to my picnic with Mac. When we arrived each student was sharing their bear with the class and explaining why it was special. Mac chose the bear Daddy bought him for Valentine’s day this year. Once they were done, we found each other and Mac was to show me each station with our bears. The teacher asked if we could take a little boy with us whose mother couldn’t make it. I thought, what a great idea and was pleased to say yes. My enthusiasm for that one dipped a little when the little boy we were paired with was constantly in my face or poking me on the shoulder saying, “Look at mine! Look at mine!” I tried to be gracious and remind myself that he was with us because his mom had to work. Be kind. It isn’t his fault. But man, that was hard! All I wanted to do was snuggle close to Mac and talk about each station as all the other moms were doing with their little ones. But we made it. And we had a blast. Here is a visual walk through of our hour there.
First up, read a book to your bear.
Write a story about you and your bear.
Then we enjoyed a beary good cupcake.
After our snack, we were off to become bears by making bear ears.
Can't really see the ears, but who cares with a boy like that wearing them. 🙂 Adorable.
We drew bears following the directions and colored them in.
And we snuck in a pic of just us!
We think our bears had a great time.
It was so great to see Mac in his classroom and interacting with the other students. Of course, he’s been moved to a table of all girls so that his attention can be directed more to school work only and not socializing with the boys…but you know him, ever the optimist. He’s enjoying sitting with girls, ’cause they’re my friends, too’. 🙂