Growing Stuffed Bear

[franceslievens]

Class mascot and perpetual inhabitant of first grade Bear got cleaned up over the Summer. Mama sew him trousers (he's been sitting with his butt naked in my class over the last two years), and she washed his shirt. Right now he's sitting on the couch in our office, quietly waiting for me to take him back to school.

P.: "That Bear has grown over the Summer. He must go to second grade. He's too big to be in first grade."
Me: "I think his shirt shrank."
P.: "No, he really has this serious and wizened look in his eyes. He's older, I tell you."