Friday, October 23, 2009

Sharing is Caring

Now that Bunny is in school she is learning to share. Aside from her weekly play date and time spent with her cousins, she has never really had to share anything. The joys of being an only child. School is changing this. She has to share toys and books with the other kids in class. She also has to share her teachers' attention. And so far so good.

Wednesday was Bunny's turn with the sharing bag, her school's version of show and tell. When its their turn, each child gets the bag so they can bring a special object to school and share with the class. Now Bunny has already brought all of her special "guys" to school for comfort objects, so we had to come up with something the kids hadn't seen. Finally we decided on her new "favorite" toy, a rubber, stretchy green iguana named Liz.

The bag was supposed to have instructions for the parents on it. But Bunny's bag did not. So I didn't really know what we were supposed to do. I vaguely remember we were supposed to write out clues the kids could give their friends to guess what was in the bag, but how many? One? Two? Three? No idea. So I did the only thing I could, I asked Bunny.

"Bunny, how many clues do the kids give?"
"Okay, what clues should we give?"
"No, three. One. I don't want to give clues."
"But that's how the sharing bag goes."
"So we give two clues?"
"I don't want to share."
"But its your turn to share."
"Okay. Two. No, three. No, two."
"Okay we are doing two. What should they be?"
"Um, she has spines on her back."
"How about lets start off with its green."
"Okay. Then I'm gonna draw some spines on the paper."
"Sure. Let's go with that.
"Can I draw Liz?"
"Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the guessing game?"
"So I can't draw Liz?"
"I don't want to share."
"But it will be fun."

Sharing crisis averted. (Apparently it went fine and she actually shared.) Its good to share.

Bunny has also been kind enough to share things from school with Mommy. Specifically, her cold. In Bunny, it was a mildly irritating cold that turned her into a mini-Darth Vader. But when she gave it to me, it morphed into a nasty, yucky thing that actually gave me vertigo. The everything is spinning, your brain is going crazy kind of vertigo, not the Alfred Hitchcock movie Vertigo. The movie version would have been much preferred, I like Jimmy Stewart. I did not like the head spinny version.

Maybe its not good to share everything.


Anonymous said...

The last two weeks, Bunny's cousins and aunt have had: fevers, coughs, runny noses, ear infections, bronchitis, strep throat. Thats times 4!! Hope she feels better!!

rachel... said...

Hope you're feeling better!

And Bunny would fit right in here! We have a countless number of stretchy reptiles, dinos and bugs!

~Laura said...

Hope you feel better soon! I hate when they start school and the germs come creeping home!