So Proud

I am so proud of my little Hannah Banana. At her Montessori school they have a different theme each month and this month it was the ocean. Each month they have many "jobs", as the Montessori way calls it, which are basically learning areas all around the classroom for the kids to work on which relate to the month's theme (they call them jobs b/c mom & dad go to a job so they have jobs to do too).

Anyway, yesterday after I picked her up and we were at home she said to me that one of the jobs was missing a fish and it was "So, so, so, so, so very sad" (yes, she said "so" that many times). She also had the cutest sad look on her face while she said this. I was a little confused so I asked her to clarify. She told me Miss Veronica (a teacher) was showing them how the job worked and she realized a fish was missing and it was so very sad. I agreed with her that is was sad and she said it was lost or someone took it, to which I again agreed with her that it was sad. She then said in a very excited voice, "I bring my fish to school for the job!". I wondered what she meant and she ran off all excited and said "I show you!". She went into one of her many tubs of toys and pulled out a little plastic fish that belongs to her A-Z collection of plastic toys that she has had forever...although this fish is an "X" animal and it is called and x-ray fish...it is clear and you can see the fish bones inside...I know very strange. Anyway, she said she wanted to bring her fish to school to replace the missing fish for this particular job. I told her that was really sweet but that she didn't have to do that because it was her fish. Nope, she wanted to give it to her school, and she was so excited about it. I was so proud of her b/c I had not even brought the subject up or hinted that she could do that, hell I didn't even think about it! She thought of this very kind and generous act on her own!

So this morning she asked me like 10 times if we had the fish for school and when we got to school the first thing she showed me was the job with the missing fish. There are other little plastic animals there, such as a whale, a seahorse, etc and you are to match the plastic animal with the written word for each animal. Hannah's fish is huge compare to these other animals but it doesn't matter, she donated it. She told several teachers and they were very appreciative that she did that. Again I was so proud of her that I almost cried.