Proud parents

The guys are asleep now and I really wanted to write this from our perspective: 2 proud parents. Tonight we went to "Meet the teacher night" at Mateo's school. Mikah came along also. There was a nice corn roast outside beforehand and the kids who had come along with their parents were playing in the playground. Mateo was watching out for his little brother and still managing to squeeze in a few tricks too.

All of a sudden we see Mateo carrying a plastic bag, going around picking up the litter in the schoolyard. At a fairly good clip no less. A few minutes later another kid joined him just like that! Then a third! They were covering good ground. One lost interest after a few minutes and then the other too, but hey, they're 5 years old in a playground! However, Mateo kept at it. He even emptied the bag he had into a garbage can and kept going.

We asked him what had made him start doing this and he replied that it would make the schoolyard a cleaner place for the kids to play in and that the teachers wouldn't have so much to pick up.

A tear in my eye? Ya, allergies.