Pete the Cat's Belly Button

Well our Pete the Cat, who has been going on many adventures with the families all year,

had an adventure himself 

last weekend,

He had minor plastic surgery.

This story started when we got Eric Litwin's new book,

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.

It's a wonderful book, which I mentioned in a previous post.

I have heard parents use Pete's philosophy with their children

when they are upset about losing something.

"Would Pete cry?"

And amazingly their child calms and moves on.

Or a parent told me a story of overhearing her daughter searching for something

at home in her room.

When she couldn't find it she said, "things come and things go".

Wow, what power a few words can have.

Back at school, 

I found this yellow shirt that fits Pete and used velcro

to attach the buttons to the shirt.

So as we read the story the buttons can be removed.

Well when we got to the part in the story where we see Pete's belly button,

the children commented that our Pete didn't have a 

belly button.

After a little brainstorming, it was decided that someone would sew a button

on Pete.

Van and his mom Karen volunteered to be the doctors.

Van searched through our button box till he found a button.

After a full recovery, Pete was back at school showing off

his brand new belly button.

Ready to share his story with our big buddy class,

the grade 3s.