Ukraine Adoption

Flashlight!

So Tara and I pulled into the Target store parking lot the other night to buy some new snow pants and she began to scream, hysterically. Oh my gosh, what's wrong? I slammed on the breaks in the parking spot.

"I forgot the soundcan at school! I needed to bring it home! WAAAAHHHHHHHH!!" Tears were streaming down her cheek. I couldn't figure out what she was talking about. Soundcan? What is that? Did you just remember this right now? "YEEESSS! It's all DADDY'S FAULT!" she wailed. John had picked her up from school a few hours earlier. She was so upset she was shaking. This wasn't her typical cry.

Do you put stuff in it to shake and make a sound? I asked. "NOOO!!" After many questions that frustrated her more,I finally figured out that the kids are taking turns bringing home a can and they are supposed to put things in it that start with a particular letter, a sound. For Tara, it was the letter N.

I told her not to worry, that we will arrive before the teachers and fill the sound can and they won't even realize we didn't take it home. This calmed her down (though I think she still sought out John and yelled at him when we got home, to which he replied, "A soundcan??")

So that night we hunted for some items that start with an N. N-n-n Napkin, n-n-nail polish, nickels. I think it's a pretty cool school project, teaching the pre-schoolers to sound out letters in words. Then Tara excitedly proclaimed: "I know! N- N- N- flashlight!"

We have been retelling this one at dinnertime, it still makes us laugh. N N N flashlight!