Surprise for Ms. B

L and her friend, M, have been conspiring for months about the year-end class present for their teacher, Ms. B. On their own, they collected about $150 toward the present from their classmates, found out what Ms. B likes and ordered two fruit baskets from Edible Arrangements. This morning M's mom picked up the order and called L, M and a boy, D, to the office to take the baskets up to the classroom.

First Ms. B read the card the kids made. She kept telling them all year, "In my 28 years of teaching I've never ..." so they put that on the front of the card - "Though you say you've never had a class like us before in your 28 years ... ."

And then, of course, they encouraged her to share the fruit baskets. L took it upon herself to dole out the fruit to her fellow classmates.

And we had to take a last-day-of-school all-class picture. They're all in their "Bye Bye Blacktop" shirts because construction starts today immediately after school.

And I got a picture of L with Ms. B and this time, L has her eyes open!! She looks a little possessed, but her eyes are open.