Flat Stanley

Some of you may be familiar with the children's book "Flat Stanley". I however was not, and so I was surprised when I received a letter in the mail from my 6-yr-old nephew Cole asking me to show Flat Stanley around Atlanta, GA. I, being an over-achiever, did much more than that. I took Flat Stanley on a tour of Georgia AND Tennessee, and then flew across the country with him to Utah. I was determined that our Flat Stanley would get the most pins on the map!

Here I am teaching Flat Stanley an oboe lesson. He even got his own oboe to keep!

And through a random series of events, my student Carolyn accidentally picked up the copy of my music that had Flat Stanley in it for her Senior Recital. Imagine her surprise when she came out to play the second piece on her recital, opened the music, and found a Flat Stanley paperdoll with a paper oboe in his hand! Yeah, she cracked up. And if you look at the top left of the stand, you will see Flat Stanley's hand poking out. Yep...he was waving at the audience the ENTIRE time!

In addition to driving the golfcart, and attending a circus in TN, and going to the Oak Ridge Science Museum and buying Cole's class pencils that change colors, he also got his own plane seat on our trip out to UT!