10 Pink Pigs

Our living room floor hasn't looked like this for a long time. We had a little visitor for a short while this afternoon. The first order of business is always politely asking for something out of the candy jar. After all, this is known as the Candy House to her and her cousin. Then, the farmyard-in-a-bag that she had brought came to life. Little K. counted out "10 pink" little pigs for me (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 - not bad for soon-to-be 3 years old) then stirred them up with her hand and informed me that she was "scrambling" them. When she spotted the LocBlocks that I had set out, however, the animals were left to entertain themselves for awhile.

I noticed an interesting phenomenon within myself with this visit. The mom in me was interested in watching how K. played and in verbally engaging her cute little personality to see what ideas she would come up with, while the new teacher in me started making note of her speech, vocabulary choices, and counting and color identification skills. Yikes. Anyway, she is a corker and very sweet so it was a nice hour. When it was time to go she sang a "This is How We Clean Up" song while she and Don put the farm back in the bag. You can tell she is the daughter of a teacher!

I love this look of concentration on K's face and remember the expression well on the faces of my own when they were this age.