what we did today

Little cee, who's in 4th grade, went today to teach a class of 3rd graders! Her aunt teaches third grade at a different school, and asked if she would come in and talk a bit about diabetes and how she spends a typical day managing food and insulin. Today was also their Walk for a cure day in the school district, so students from all over town were walking to raise money for research!

Little cee cannot stop talking about how much fun she had in that 15 minutes where all eyes were on her! She wrote on the white board with different colored markers, had two visual bottles of "blood".... one showed "normal" blood -- (water with blue food coloring), the other showed "blood" that had too much sugar in it -- ( thick, blue shampoo). Well, you can imagine how one flowed and the other sludged along. It was a good way to illustrate why her body needs insulin since it doesn't make it any more on its own.

After that, we walked around the school grounds.... 11 times, which took almost an hour! EVeryone was rewarded with popsicles! All the little 3rd graders all wanted to walk with little cee.

I think this is one event she'll be talking about for some time!