ewwwww!!!!!

had i not been the victim of this event, i would not have believed it!

i was sitting at my desk today waiting for my students to finish their assignment when one of my boys came up to me and said, "hey, mrs. hayes, remember how i said i have a dog?"

"yes."

"well i have proof.  do you wanna see it?"  (i didn't doubt that the boy owned a dog.  that's not a hard one to believe...giraffe, maybe, but dog, no.)  a giant red flag should have popped up in front of me shouting, "don't do it mrs. hayes!  just say no!"

"ok...." i think i was probably scooting my chair farther away from him at this point...he opened his hand and showed me several little black pebble-looking things...miniature poop, maybe?

"what is that????"

"it's her toenails!  i trimmed them last night!"  DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT WAS FOR ME NOT TO LAUGH OUT LOUD??? 

 by now some other kids have noticed that there's a show-and-tell going on at the teacher's desk and one of them asked, "where did you keep those all day and not lose them?"

"oh, they were in my shoe."

like i said, had i not been there and someone was telling this story, i might not believe they were telling the whole truth.  but I'VE got proof! 

i am trying to keep my camera with me all the time so i can capture random {moments} in my never-boring life and boy was i glad i had it today!

so i said, "ok. now you're gonna think i'm weird but i'm going to take a picture of your dog's toenails because i like taking random pictures of things."  he thought that was pretty cool.  but now that i think about it....maybe i shouldn't encourage the boy.  who knows what he'll have tomorrow!