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Our household recently had a small crisis: Maddy's dear purple monkey, Grapes, went missing. Grapes is Maddy's school "lovey" that hangs out at ChildRoots all week in her nap bag, then comes home on the weekend. Grapes went missing in East Classroom (Maddy's nap room, but not her regular classroom which is South), and wasn't seen for days...then a week. Signs were put up in the pre-school hallways and all the kids and teachers joined the search for Grapes. Maddy was so sad that we agreed to replace the lovey. Steve ordered a new Grapes but little did he know that Grapes comes in several sizes, and the Grapes that arrived was twice the size of the original. Hmmmm, how would Maddy react? She LOVED the new, bigger Grapes and named her Mama Grapes.
Well, the week after Mama Grapes joined our family, the unthinkable happened. The kids from East came parading into South classroom, ecstatic because they had found the original Grapes! Maddy's reaction was unexpected. She denied that Grapes was her original Grapes and threw her across the room. This was definitely not the reaction the East-siders were expecting, nor the teachers. Maddy's primary teacher, Amber talked to her and Maddy could not be convinced that this small, slightly scruffy purple monkey was her long-lost Grapes. When I arrived that day to pick Maddy up, Amber explained what had transpired so we could discuss a bit more at home.
After awhile, Steve and I finally convinced Maddy that this was in fact the original Grapes, and that there was really no way it could be an imposter. She agreed and decided that Mama Grapes is original Grape's mom, and all was good in the world of purple monkeys. Considering Maddy's less-than-optimal response to the East-siders return of her beloved monkey, Maddy wrote a thank you card to the classroom pictured below.
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| Pickles, Meow-Meow and Grapes |
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| Thank You Card for East |
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| Mama Grapes and Grapes |
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