Count your blessings

Over last weekend, Luke had his first homework assignment from school. We had to find 5 beautiful fall leaves so he could make a "count your blessings" tree at school this week. So, we spent some time Sunday sifting through the mostly brown leaves and found 5 pretty ones to bring. When I arrived to pick Luke up from school Monday afternoon I saw the trees hanging on the bulletin board outside his class. I couldn't resist checking his out before I went into his class to get him. His 5 leaves said he was thankful for: 1. Dad, 2. Mom, 3. school, 4. making spiders at school, and 5. deer. I was like, "deer?" I mean, I know he knows what a deer is, but we don't see a lot of deer and don't talk about deer, so I'm really wondering where that came from. So I ask him about it as we're putting his coat on and gathering his things, and his response is "the deer on the road." I'm still like, "what?" I mean, we see dead deer on the road all the time, but we don't point them out to him or anything. Before we left, another boy in the class comes over to us and tells us about how he saw two dead deer in the road, and I finally had my answer to where the deer came from. I'm guessing that the teacher amended "deer in the road" to just "deer". It is so funny the ideas they come up with. I'm glad he has things he is thankful for.