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Today was a pretty good day. This morning started off when we were in the breakfast line. One of the kindergarteners asked me how to spell 'awkward.' Not sure where that came from or why, and I am sure he has no idea what that means! Anyways...

Me: a

Him: a 

Me: w

Him: w

Me: k

Him: k

Me: w

Him: w

Me: a

Him: a

Me: r

Him: r

Me: d

Him: d

He pauses waiting for me to say more and when he realizes we are done he jumps up and down and says: Ha - I just spelled awkward!!

Then this afternoon ends with a bang. We had a courage assembly today and only a few kids from each grade get awards for estimating, and for being courageous. The student that spelled awkward in the morning was sitting crying at the end of the assembly. I come to find out that he is very upset he didn't get any awards. I try to explain to him that not everyone does each time, and if he looked at his friends he would see they didn't all get awards either and they were not crying - we need to be a big boy. He wasn't having it and kept crying and coughing. He ended up coughing so hard he puked on himself and on me! 

I talked with his Nana and Tete after school and they laughed, apologized to me (which is not what I was looking for), and told me he was just being a drama queen (which he does frequently at home). I figured that, but now I smell like puke! Oh well - it's just a part of the job.