On Tuesday morning the kids and I went to the book fair before school. They have a game near the register where you randomly pick a pencil and if your pencil has a colored dot on the bottom, you get to pick a book from a bin of prize books.

I let the kids each play twice that morning and Adam ended up winning with both of his picks – lucky duck. It costs a quarter per pencil, the money is donated to the Boys and Girls Club, and worst case scenario – you get a fun pencil.

The kids were each visiting the book fair again this week with their classes. Since we’d already done our shopping together, I gave each of them a dollar so they could play the pencil game a few more times while their classmates shopped.

Luke’s class went yesterday and he got himself a soccer bookmark for fifty cents and then played the pencil game twice. He won with one of his picks and while looking through his book options, decided to get one for Maggie. He told me it was a “perfect Maggie book” because it “has glitter and unicorns on the cover and it’s a graphic novel.”

Maggie was so excited by Luke’s thoughtfulness. She sat down and finished up the book she was currently reading so she could dive right in to the unicorn one. Luke was thrilled by her reaction and how happy she was with his choice (it really is a perfect Maggie book).

Those two haven’t been getting along the best lately. Maggie’s been practicing her role as pesky little sister and Luke hasn’t had much patience with her.  I fully expect that I’ll be back to refereeing them soon, but for last night at least, they were pretty awesome to each other.