Gardening and communication

It's been forever since I've added to this, which is silly of me. Lots of things being whisked away on Facebook to never be seen again.

Lorelei (now 4.5) made me so proud yesterday.

We were digging a new area of our garden out to plant a pretty Abutilon Belle (flowering maple that looks like a hibiscus). I found a grub and startled it with her by holding it close to her until she looked up. She looked up, jumped and shrieked. We both laughed and I tossed the grub in the yard. We went back to what we were doing and I found another and did the same thing--- what can I say, I can be a bit of a brat. She reacted the same way, with the jump, the shriek and the giggle.

But then.. she looked at me seriously and said, "Mommy, next time you find a grub can you just tell me and show me from further away and not put it so close to me? I don't like it when you do that, but I do like seeing them."

Holy cow! Communication at it's finest! She modeled it perfectly after the way I've been asking her to speak up for herself.

Experiments with physics

Give two kids a half deflated yoga ball and they will have an amazing time with it. Eventually if they are small enough they will figure out if one sits on one side and the other sits hard on the other side the first one will fly off. They will have an amazing time of this until they get carried away and the littler one flies halfway across the porch and gets a black eye. Mom of the year award for me.