They say school-aged children collect things.

[qwyneth]

I checked bear's pockets at bedtime tonight (mostly because when he flung them across the room toward the laundry pile things spiraled out) and found the following items:

• Several crumpled up pieces of paper
  
• A bent out of shape paperclip; reportedly a "gift from his teacher"
  
• A red bead
  
• A washer
  
• A wrapper of unknown origin
  
• A small metal ball
  
• Several coins
  
• A rusty bolt
  
• A four inch rusty piece of a chain link fence
  

Apparently we will have to have a chat with him about tetanus. It can't faze me, however; not since I discovered (back in the old house) his secret cache of tampon applicators rescued from the bathroom trash.