Ya Feeling Lucky?
It dawned on me and my kindergarten-attending daughter at the same time: today is Wednesday, and we haven't done diddly with the class mascot, Lucky the Leopard, and we've got to manufacture some quality family-bonding with the stuffed animal in the next 24 hours, or Lucky's week at the Lauck house is going to read like a real snooze-fest in the communal journal.
We brought the bag home with the little fella on Monday, and put him on the couch. So, I mean, technically, he's watched me whoop some little-kid butt in Wii Lego Star Wars, and he's witnessed the dog chewing on her butt a few times, and has caught a few episodes of Mythbusters. That's not nothing.
I flipped through the previous journal entries. Oh great. The other parents took the stuffed animal to the grocery store and to the dentist and to the beach and to San Francisco and to all sorts of places. I turned to my scowling daughter and said, "Well, we can use our creativity and imagination to enhance our time with Lucky!"
"You mean lie?"
"Um, no. Embellish!"
"Mooooooo-ooooom!"
I made her take it out in the yard and push it down the slide twice. Whee! Lucky totally had fun with that.
I also caught the dog trying to sneak off with Lucky in her mouth and pulled off a rescue. My dog likes to chew button eyes off of stuffed animals. That and she likes to chew on her butt. I am sure I can weave those details into a scintillating tale appropriate for a 5-year-old audience. They like anything to do with butts, farts and underpants.
I've finally tucked the kids in for the night, and shoved Lucky under the covers next to my daughter. She's oblivious, but we can totally write that she slept with him - which is another common theme in all the other entries.
Shoot. I'm going to go extract him from the bed and give him a ride in the washing machine. All those cooties - ick.
So - let's recap. We went from nothing to observing the natives, learning about science (maybe, depending on the episodes) being snatched from the jaws of certain dismemberment, some righteous butt chewing and butt kicking, a few harrowing drops down the slide of doom and now some white-water rafting. I'd say Lucky's having a great week.
Comments
Sounds like Lucky is a lucky dog indeed!
Posted by: Monkey's Momma | December 4, 2008 7:39 AM
My daughter had something like that in preschool a few years ago. I just shot a couple of pictures of the thing playing trains with us and called it good. Now I sound really boring.
Posted by: Heather | December 4, 2008 11:32 AM
Dude. parallel lives. We just had "Whoever the heck snuggle-fuzzy" for my 1st-grade daughters class. We wrote that he ate dinner with us, and ate breakfast with us. My poor daughter was embarrassed that we didn't do more, but I told her at least he got to have a couple meals. We didn't let him STARVE!
Posted by: jennyonthespot | December 4, 2008 10:31 PM
Nothing thrills me more than to know that my son's class has no mascot. I had heard tales of mascots in other classrooms, in other grades and I just am so not into that....call me a bad parent, but her......and omg, if it were alive? LIke a fish or hamster, it would so die in this house, I"M not kidding.
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Posted by: Jerri Ann | December 5, 2008 4:38 PM
Lucky had a kick ass week. I mean the thing had a near death experience. That's one for the record books.
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Posted by: Maria | December 6, 2008 7:57 PM
We did the same thing a few years ago. If I recall , our dog was "Lucky" Too.
The kids had a great time with him and they have pictures doing everything with him.
It was fun!
Posted by: mariasc | December 8, 2008 6:14 PM
I think Lucky probably had more fun with you than with most families!
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Posted by: Connie @ Young & Relentless | December 12, 2008 9:43 PM
When we had the class stuffy, the same issues came up. Our life is boring. So, we put Too Too in a variety of poses (climbing the plant, playing the piano) and took pictures. We made a little booklet, and tada!! We look amazing. Even if we never left the living room...
Posted by: Tammy | December 14, 2008 8:49 AM
The one time we had the preschool bear we lucked out and it was our son's birthday party weekend. I won't be that lucky with the second son's bear weekend coming up. So I'm all about embellishing. If we had Ellie the Elephant these days she'd be watching Mythbusters and hoping Rosie the Bagel Dog wouldn't chew on her butt. Yeah, I feel your pain.
Posted by: jen | December 15, 2008 6:49 PM
You;re a laff 'n a haff, you are. :)
Posted by: elyssium earth | December 17, 2008 4:35 AM