Not everyone is able to bring grandparents so it's evolved into "special person's day". Aunt Gail went with Lucas' class and Mark and Alison went with Eli's. As usual it was hard to get much information out of either Luke or Eli until everyone was on the way to bed that night. Then they had a lot of stories.
Alison on the other hand started talking the minute we all got home. I was a little worried what she and Mark might encounter at school, if you've never been in an elementary school as anything but a student it could potentially have the makings of overload, miscommunication, total and complete honesty from the mouths of kids and general organized chaos. Not an environment that most 27 year olds will volunteer for.
Alison learned many things from Eli's friends and even more from her littlest brother. Below is a couple photos from the afternoon. The special part is the letter that Eli wrote to her. Hope you can read it. When it's important to Eli he is a man of few words. But how he wields those words can hit you right in the heart.
Sentiment doesn't come easily for Eli...you have to earn his trust and then wait.....for a long time which just makes it that much better when you receive such pronouncements.
I think the third thing he mentions is that she's dating Mark whom both Lucas and Eli worship for his height and basketball skills....and the fact he's pretty nice to their sister.
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