Matthew's teacher has a sports theme for her classroom, which Matthew loves, of course. One of the things she does to go along with her theme is to give each child a week when they are the MVP (just in case you are even more sports illiterate than me, that stands for Most Valuable Player). She has an activity each day of the week that is fun or puts that child in the spotlight. It is great fun and the kids all look forward to their week.
This week is Matthew's MVP week and today Malia and I got to eat lunch with him again. There were no special tables this time, just the opportunity to eat lunch with Matthew in the cafeteria. They have one long table set aside for the kids with nut allergies and that is where Matthew sits. Each kid is allowed to invite one friend to sit at the nut free table with them and by the time we were seated and unpacking our lunches, the table was completely crammed full of kids. It was so full that the lunch room attendant came over to send the non-allergy kids back to the other tables. The problem was, they were all nut allergy kids. So there we were, packed in like sardines, when I looked up and down the table and realized that Malia and I were the only girls. And then I remembered that in fact, boys are more likely to be allergic to nuts than girls are.
About ten years from now, Malia is really going to like those odds.
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