Lauren brought home a piece of her 2nd grade class work the other day. It was some 4 pages of questions, all types, in the unit Kindness, from The Story of Three Whales. I didn't see the book it's from, but this section appears to have been about Inuits rescuing some whales trapped in the ice. The last essay question reads, "Personal Response - Write about a time you or someone you know helped an animal." Here's her answer:

Once my grandma's freind
helped a snack. He brang it to
his museum. It was a glossy
snack. I got to pet it.

An earlier project was a collection of photographs to represent various stages of her growing up thus far. Included, of course, was the one of Lauren holding old Glossy. Her visit to the Natural History museum and that private showing of its reptile collection will be with her forever.