'twas the night before 2nd grade

'Twas the night before second grade, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even the pug.  His backpack was hung from the dining room chair, loaded with notebooks and back to school gear.  Monkey butt was nestled, all snug in his bed, while visions of zombie killing pea shooters danced in his head. Regi and her Mac book, and I, with iPad, had just settled down for an episode of Breaking Bad. Then in the kitchen there arose such a clatter, I sprung from the sofa to see what was the matter. Away to the doorway I flew like a flash, tripped over the vacuum and caused quite a crash. The moon light reflecting off Hootie the Beta's fish bowl, illuminated the counters, and floor down below. When, what to my wondering eyes should appear, but a new, shiny red bento, and cutlery set from last year. With tofu bunnies, and penguins, and frog, atop of rotini they sat like a dog. With agave in a bear, and a sliced pink pearl apple, and chocolate almond milk, so much better than Snapple! There was a sprinkling of Oppenheimer white chocolate chips, and carrot expressions on the tofu critters, to cross over his lips. Sliced olives, and rotini, in a smoky tomato vinaigrette sauce,and a little note card, with a funny joke about math, I thought "Surely this is a lunch he won't toss." And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the stove, the zipping of a sparkly Spider-Man lunch bag; what a trove! As I drew in my head and was turning around, down onto the floor it fell without sound.  He was made of green paper, of the construction sort. In a green hue similar to that of a caper. An origami yoda to help brighten his morn, "Great first day of school, have you will" he would say. His eyes, they were drawn on, and his mouth was too. His ears were crumpled bits of tree pulp, but alas, the poor fellow's saber was gone.  I folded, and creased, and used a bit of tape. i hope in the morning, the boy's mouth is agape. i shall hide him some where, with out a rest break. i know, by the potty, that's his first stop once he's awake! Now I am quite tired, and anxious with delight, so  Happy eve of school to all, and to all a good night!

Day2

Day 2 went as follows, lunch consisted of a chili tortilla with earth balance and pepperoni (per his request of course, he is hooked on it!) sammie, carrots with the soy ginger dressing again, a peach mango fruit gel cup, chocolate almond milk and a you rock note in his batman lunchbox, which matches his batman backpack from Hot Topic which is super cute because it has a batman hood that unzips from the top of the backpack. Sadly the strap is kinda farkakta because it was made out of a cheap nylon taffeta, and instead of sewing the foam and the fabric into the seam, they just sewed the fabric, so guess who's going to be playing seamstress in the near future? None the less he loves it, but for a $35 backpack, with a free poster (which cost us $5 in gas because the store we went to was out of them and we had to go clear across town to another store to pick it up) it should have held up a little longer. I guess we were paying for the hood? lol  Todays outfit consisted of a black eye courtesy of Apple's army hat (Apple is my beloved grandson, a penguin from build-a-bear who wears swim trunks and an army hat) that he fell face first on last night getting out of the car , a army green solar system t-shirt, the belt, gray velcro strap tennis shoes, and black and gray DKNY shorts. I gotta say it was kind of cute the way he clutched Apple close to his chest so that he wouldn't get hurt, and build-a-bear should not use hard plastic brims in the hats for their lovies.