in iowa city, schoolkids make may baskets for may day. the twins had school canceled today for kindergarten roundup (wherein all incoming kindergartners go to kindergarten for a day so the teachers can meet them and decide on their draft picks. i imagine a meeting over summer where they say things like “i’m only going to take the kid who peed his pants three times in one afternoon if you take BOTH of the twin girls whose parents are vegans against immunizations.”)
so the twins did not make may baskets. however, all the non-kindergartners did, and as soon as the Doorbell Response Team saw the girls next door disappearing around the corner and 4 may baskets on the stoop (chipotle drink cups decorated with aladdin stickers, filled with popcorn and hershey’s kisses,) they set to work making some to give back:
after filling them with s’mores brownies and smarties, they made labels. the labels had may day-themed pictures, like mother brain and ridley, the villains of the metroid video game series. because hey, drawing flowers is hard. drawing a grossly oversized brain with tentacles and tusks is much easier:
then they suited up in their spy gear to sneak over and leave their baskets:
