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| Playing the "as if" game. Pretending to be seagulls |
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playing in the dirt instead of listening to the fireman
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| Spring 2010 - when Anthony first met Junior at the pet store |
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| Helping build Junior's cage |
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| The picture we buried with Junior |
Today has been a sad day for our family. Anthony's pet rabbit, Junior died. We found him this morning right before school. We let Anthony stay home from school. He joined Emily today for library day. It's fire safety month so the Seymour fire department brought a fire truck for the kids to see. Later we had a small funeral for Junior and buried him in the back yard next to our garden. Anthony built him a wooden cross and put a picture of himself and Junior in his box. It broke our hearts to see him cry. He handled it better than we would have expected and we couldn't be more proud of him. This on top of finding out recently that our neighbors Carysa and Connor will be moving away in a few days has made him pretty sad. It's made all of us pretty sad actually.
We made a craft today to try to help keep his mind off of things. We made owls out of paper plates and later went to his first den meeting for cub scouts. He had a lot of fun there. The boys got to play on the playground. Then they played 'the name game' while playing catch. The parents played too. It was actually kind of fun. Then the boys had a snack and one of the mothers (Kaden's mom, Jamie) brought in instructions on how to make different paper airplanes. Most of the boys took off with ones the Jamie had already made as examples. A few attempted to make their planes while their parents either helped (did most the work) or made made them instead of the boys. Not Anthony, he didn't need or want help. A few minutes later he was off to join the other boys, with a plane he'd made himself. At one point in the meeting, he sat back on a bench and said, "This is the life."
