the ballad of justin beaver

I am very easily excited. In life I have found this to be mostly a positive thing. Sometimes I get so excited about an idea that I have to attack it right away. One idea that made me go kinda nuts like that was my beaver hat. I was sitting at a table coloring with some preschoolers and started doodling beanie ideas. I made about a dozen little scribbles of different things I could try but the beaver is what stuck out. I went home and started right away. I stayed up until 4:30 am! My husband worked early that morning so I stayed up to greet him when he got up. I was able to wear what I had made when he came into the front room and I could not stop laughing at how silly and cute it was. Perhaps my sleepy state had something to do with it. Needless to say, I was extremely thankful that it was Friday night/Saturday morning and that I could pass out for many hours instead of chase little guys all over at work.

Shortly after this I decided it would be fun to ask the kids in my class to help me give each hat a name. When I held up the beaver hat a boy in my class did not hesitate to shout out “JUSTIN BEAVER!” This was from the boy in my class that brought a brush to school on picture day so he could make sure he had Justin Bieber hair in his photo. I had tears in my eyes I was laughing so hard. Because of this, even though the other hats will all have individual names, the beaver beanie will always be called “Justin”.