Friday, April 25, 2014

Offspring


Daughter 2 came home for a week and we variously: walked by the beach;


helped her to design hotel rooms;


stood in front of a huge rhododendron at the Botanics;


made our favourite joke about a waterfall ("Waterfall! Ouch!");


admired lots more spring blossom;


and slid down a slide with our little sister - not actually strangling her.

We've been telling Grandson about spring. Daughter 2 advised him not to walk on the bit of lawn which has been reseeded - because the seeds would grow into nice new grass. We watched a moorhen on the pond at the Botanics as it sat on a nest, and discussed how this would lead to lots of baby moorhens. I told him how things grow out of the ground, where they've been invisible all winter, and burst into bloom.

Later, we read a book about ducks in Boston who're trying to find a good place to nest. At last they find somewhere and the mummy duck lays her eggs. "And what'll come out of the eggs?" I asked.

He thought for a bit. Then  he said triumphantly, "Flowers!"

(It's a principle of teaching that I should know by now: test that the student has understood one concept before moving on to the next.)

6 comments:

  1. how lovely - and such perfect logic in the the toddler brain ... I love how they figure it all out, bit by bit :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Wonderful time. Ducks in Boston. You brought back such wonderful memories of the story and the ducks.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hahaha -- well, at least you know he was listening -- even if there was a little mix-up. Is the ducks in Boston story "Make Way for Ducklings"? I LOVE that book!

    ReplyDelete
  4. Yes, that's the book.

    ReplyDelete