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Bay is in 1st grade this year. One of the big milestones is that he has become a “collector” of items. Whenever I am doing the laundry, I have to check the pockets of his pants, otherwise the bottom of the washing machine will be filled with trinkets. It’s always a little scary digging into those pockets, even though I haven’t found anything gross like dead frogs or bugs. Mostly there are things like erasers, acorns, pebbles, beads, papers with drawings, and the occasional penny or two. About 20% of the time, there’s a bunch of sand or dirt in there as well, and I have to dump it out in the trash. I remember when I was growing up, my mom had a box on the dryer, which had some coins in it. I guess the box was to collect all the phat lewt that us kids had collected and stuffed in our pockets! Bay is a pretty clean and tidy boy, so I am not surprised that his pockets have relatively harmless things in them, but I can imagine Koa will be collecting more “extreme” items, like dead scorpions, broken glass, and rusty nails. I can’t wait.