challenger school

i went to challenger preschool.
my boyfriend/husband's name was brock and we would sit next to each other on the circle rug.
everyday for art everyone would copy what the teacher drew with a black crayon on white paper (ciricle, now a square next to it, now a line), and then we could paint it with watercolors.
once we drew the bill and hillary clinton at the inaugural ball.

i had two teachers, one with brown hair and one with blonde hair. we learned the alphabet and how to read. they gave us a book to take home called "nat bug", my dad loved nat bug. and we still talk about it today.
there was another book that we got, i only remember one line from it though "kit was a hep cat"
it was about a cat, but what does hep mean? is it just a made up three letter word that they put there because we wouldn't be able to read "happy". i always thought that when i grew up i would figure this out.