I heard a chickadee today.

[conuly]

No doubt I've heard chickadees before, but this time I knew what it was! So I told Ana, and we spent quite a bit of time listening for the chickadee and singing "fee bee, fee bee" to ourselves. And then we missed the bus, but that's all right.

Now if only I could remember what a chickadee looks like....

Ana and I are also working on recognizing different types of flowers, with limited success. She knows three or four flower names, but she can't tell which is which yet. Maybe next year.

One last Ana-comment before I go - she collects rocks. Every pebbled driveway or yard... "Connie? Can I get a wock, peeeze?"

This is so much like me from about her age until... well... much older. I *loved* my rocks. I spent many happy hours washing them, playing with them, putting nail polish on them (I didn't want the boring ones to feel boring, did I? And then the non-boring ones couldn't be left out, could they?), carting them around my room (hey, rocks are heavy!)....

I loved those rocks.

Well, I always said it - children take after their aunts and uncles. There are worse habits she could have than rock collecting.

Comments

Identifying rocks

[duponthumanite.livejournal.com]

Did you think to teach Ana how to identify rocks in your neighbourhood?

Adelaide

Re: Identifying rocks

[conuly]

*jawdrop*

Would you believe no?

But I should.

I totally should.

That'd be so cooooooooool!!!!!

THANKS!

Re: Identifying rocks

[marveen.livejournal.com]

...I commented without reading the previous comment, of course.

(My father taught me to tell jasper from basalt and granite from quartz before I could read cursive script. There are advantages to being the daughter of a soils engineer.)

Re: Identifying rocks

[sayga.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we had a similar childhood experience in the rock aspect. My dad is a geologist. I remember family road trips where we'd pull off the road just so my dad could point out layers in the rock and tell us how it was formed... :P

Re: Identifying rocks

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

I wish my dad were an earth nerd! That sounds like so, so much fun.