The book

John brought home a scholastic book order form a few weeks ago.  We let him pick out a few books.  As I was writing the check, he noticed that there was a My Little Pony book in the flyer.  He asked me "Can I get this for Gill?"  I said "Of course, and we can make it a surprise for Christmas."  He loved that idea.  And we submitted the order.  We discussed that we would put Gillian to bed early the night he got the book and then we would wrap it while she was sleeping.  That way it would be a surprise.  The next day he came home and said "No books yet."  I told him it would be awhile before the books would come in. 

I picked John up from school last Tuesday night and before we could leave school he stopped me.  He said "Can I tell you something?  We got the books today.  And you know what?  I wrapped Gillian's gift already.  But we wrapped it with tissue paper and it was see-through!  So we put a reindeer on it."  I asked him, "Did you tell Mrs. Belena that the book was for Gillian?"  He replied "Um yeah!"  He was so excited.  In the car on the way home, he told me "We gotta make sure she doesn't go in my bookbag.  We need to hide the book too!"  We hid the book later that night.

The next day at the bus stop, I asked him about his book order.  He said "Some of the kids laughed because I got a Pony book.  But I told them that it was for my sister.  Then they didn't laugh."  I asked him how he got Mrs. Belena to help him wrap it.  He said "I told her when I handed in my order!  She knew it was for my sister!"  I emailed Mrs. Belena to thank her for helping John.  She said "To see John so happy about giving was heartwarming."  I love my little man's big heart!