The Year of The Ear

I remember when we started kindergarten, one of the parents told me that the second graders are the ugliest kids in school.  And not any second graders, but all second graders... with their big teeth and just-beyond-the-age-of-cuteness looks.

But we may have taken the cake this year when Marco woke up with a giant swollen ear the day before school pictures. Giant. Luckily, the swelling went down significantly in one day, leaving only a minor head defect for his pics.

There might be something to that rumor about second grade... which will forever be known in our minds as the year of the big ear.