Show and Tell

So, Friday was show-and-tell for Jaden at kindergarten. He was so excited.... and I forgot to help him find something, so he went empty handed. He was supposed to bring something that began with E, F, or G, (the letters that they had been working on that week). While other kids in the class were showing their stuff, Jaden sat there thinking. When his teacher asked Jaden what he brought, instead of just telling her that we forgot, he got up in front of the class and introduced them to his show-and-tell item --- his imaginary friend, "Froggy". His teacher was great and asked him to tell the class a little bit about Froggy. Jaden told them that Froggy had the body of a zebra, the head of a yak, and the running power of a cheetah. His teacher noticed that that description had nothing to do with frogs and asked him why he chose the name Froggy (other than the fact that show-and-tell needed to start with e, f, or g). Jaden just responded, "Because it can jump as high as a frog." I asked Jaden if his teacher thought that was kind of funny and he told me "yeah, she laughed. And I made some of the kids laugh too." I asked if he thought it was fun to make them laugh and he said yes. That was the highlight of his day. I am just so glad that he was creative enough to come up with something like that for show-and-tell, instead of taking the easy way out and being sad because we forgot to get something picked out. He did great and is so fun with that crazy imagination of his!!!