Remember Show & Tell Day?

I do. I loved that day. The teacher never, ever placed any boundaries or limitations on them. If we wanted to lug it in to school and talk about it, we could. Most kids normally brought in pet turtles, model airplanes, pictures of fish they catch, stuff like that. 

My niece sent me this story. It's from a colleague's Show & Tell day, and with this second grader's flair for storytelling, I'm positive she'll be a writer.

One day this little girl, Erica, a very bright, very outgoing kid, takes her turn for Show & Tell and waddles up to the front of the class with a pillow stuffed under her sweater.

She holds up a snapshot of an infant. "This is Luke, my baby brother, and I'm going to tell you about his birthday."

"First, Mom and Dad made him as a symbol of their love, and then Dad put a seed in my Mom's stomach, and Luke grew in there. He ate for nine months through an umbrella cord."

She's standing there with her hands on the pillow, and I'm trying not to laugh and wishing I had my camcorder with me. The kids are watching her in amazement.

"Then, about two Saturdays ago, my Mom starts going, 'Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh!'" (Erica puts a hand behind her back and groans.)

"She walked around the house for like an hour, 'Oh, oh, oh!'"

(Now this kid is doing a hysterical duck walk and groaning.)

"My Dad called the middle wife. She delivers babies, but she doesn't have a sign on the car like the Domino's man. They got my Mom to lie down in bed like this."

(Then Erica lies down with her back against the wall.)

"And then, pop! My Mom had this bag of water she kept in there in case he got thirsty, and it just blew up and spilled all over the bed, like psshhheew!"

(This kid has her legs spread with her little hands miming water flowing away. It was too much!)

"Then the middle wife starts saying 'push, push,' and 'breathe, breathe. They started counting, but never even got past ten.

Then, all of a sudden, out comes my brother. He was covered in yucky stuff that they all said it was from Mom's play-center, so there must be a lot of toys inside there.

When he got out, the middle wife spanked him for crawling up in there in the first place."

Then Erica stood up, took a big theatrical bow and returned to her seat.

I'm sure the teacher applauded the loudest, and from then on, when it's Show-and-tell day, she brought her camcorder just in case another "Middle Wife" came along.