I was about to leave after dropping Grace off at school today, but I couldn’t find Eli’s dummy which I knew I had picked up when I took them out of the car. I looked around the car, went back into school and checked the ground along the path, and even checked that it wasn’t somewhere in Grace’s locker with her bag. Nope, nothing.

Later I got message from the teachers, “We found Eli’s dummy in Grace’s boot.” Somehow in the getting two children out of the car and putting shoes onto the one who was walking around in her socks it had landed in Grace’s gumboot.

Grace was apparently very upset when they found it, she was crying and saying, “But Eli needs his dummy!” Luckily Leonore reminded her that we have more dummies at home – after that she was fine.

This afternoon Grace looks out the window and says, “Strawberries! It’s summer time!” Um, Grace…that’s a bottle brush tree, and those are not strawberries. So she continues, “Can I pick one? Can I clean a bottle with it?”