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My co-workers managed to totally pull one over me and surprised me with a little birthday celebration at school today. The reason I suspected nothing, though since I've started working there we've celebrated the birthdays of two other teachers, the assistant and the director the same way, is because when we went out last week for an end-of-summer, end-of-summer-school dinner, they plied me with cake*, so I didn't expect anything more. Anyway, K came and asked me if I had a minute to talk about the training I'm going to be doing this weekend. I sort of wondered why she wanted to talk to me about it in the middle of the day, when she's got a class of nine 2-year-olds, but whatever. She went over the program with me, and when we made it back down a few minutes later, there were all the kids with the cards they'd made me, and I was truly surprised and touched.

The kids, of course, were all excited and jumping on me to point out, "I drew this one!" "Look at mine!" "Look! I wrote this!" After they sang me the requisite song, I asked them if I could get birthday hugs from everyone; I ended up kneeling on the floor with kids all over me. Mai kept coming back for more hugs; Haruka wouldn't let go of my leg; Leon was running around the room laughing his head off, stopping occasionally to pat my arm; and Hyo stood beside me, one hand casually grabbing my breast as he grinned up at me. *rofl*

"Hyo, why are you groping my breast?" I asked him, laughing. He just laughed along with me, not knowing what I was talking about. He actually did it to me last week, too: he was reaching up for my to pick him up or something, and both his hands landed right on my chest. He squeezed a bit, and I could just see the thoughts running through his mind: "Hmm, squishy!" *squeezesqueeze* XD To a 4-year-old, I guess they might seem large, and they're larger than his mother's, at any rate. Honestly, I'm surprised that none of the other kids have ever done this, accidentally or otherwise.

* There we were in the restaurant after our meal, planning Hallowe'en (more on that later! :D), when suddenly the lights in our corner grew dim. I was all, "What? Is the power going out?!" -- and there was a fair amount of lightning, so it wasn't that farfetched -- until I saw the waitress coming over with the birthday cake.