Top Turtle

Today Ellie was the "Top Turtle" at school. Her class is the Terrific Turtles and so when it's your day to bring snack you get to be the line leader and do the weather at circle time and you are the Top Turtle. Ellie was sooo excited to be the Top Turtle. She wanted to take cheez-its and fruit (specifically cantaloupe, strawberries, and grapes) for snack and apparently the snack was a big hit with her class, especially the fruit (by the way I loved finding out at 10pm last night while cutting grapes that they were NOT seedless...so I got to dig the seeds out of all of them...yippee). The Top Turtle gets to help pass out cups and such at snack time and Ellie has been looking forward to this all week and it did not disappoint! As soon as she got in the car she was telling me all about getting to help.
The other really exciting thing about being Top Turtle is that you get to bring something in for show and tell. Last year Emmie took her Mousie twice and took a toy the other times. I thought for sure Ellie was going to want to take a toy. When we first discussed it she thought maybe she'd take a book...my sweet girl LOVES books. She quickly changed her mind though and thought she'd take her favorite blanket (or as she refers to it..."the blanket I like to cuddle with"). On Tuesday the Top Turtle brought a toy so I thought for sure Ellie would change her mind. Nope. She was set on taking her blanket. It's funny because she's never really sucked her fingers or taken a pacifier and has never had a security object. Lately though she's become really attached to the quilt that Kristy made for her when she was born and her striped pillow from Aunt Emily. So today for show and tell her blanket from Kristy went to school...Ellie was so proud to show it off to all her friends!



PS. If you're in Columbia, check out Kristy's booth at Martha's Market at Union UMC on Saturday from 9-2 :)