Today is a very big day in the lives of all the Manchester Park Elementary 3rd graders!  They are turning in the famous “bug project.” Every student that has walked through the doors of MPE has done this…it’s like a rite of passage.  Every Fall, you see kiddos scouring the neighborhood with bug nets and desperately trying not to damage the bugs in the catching process.  We’ve had bugs in our freezer for years…literally!  However, when it came time to get Drew’s project together, we realized we did not have enough bugs with all the legs in tact!  Crap!  We even had to call in some help from Nanny and Shauna’s nephew, Griffin, who catches bugs in his sleep practically.  You would think finding a variety of 6 insects (3 body parts and 6 legs–so no cocoons and no spiders) would be pretty easy but not when you are in a million sports practices/games every single day.  We’ve used the same display case for the 3rd time and we will be saving it for Reece!  We scraped this one together and I, for one, couldn’t be happier!    When I opened up the display box yesterday to check on it and take a picture, the smell about caused me to fall to the floor.  I’m serious!  This is why they have specific instructions that they cannot be turned in early and they will be graded and sent back home by the end of the day!  Way to go Drew…hope you get an A+ buddy!!