6 Continents in 1 Week
Posted in Life on 16. Nov, 2008 by Julie.
The kids were both on school holiday a couple of weeks ago so I had a little idea to study the world. My kids love talking about the world and animals. In fact, much down time is spent by my kids talking, pretending, bickering, and wondering about the habits of animals in our world. I just endure and attempt to act interested in discussing when and why a mammoth is classified as a woolly mammoth or just a plain mammoth. I’m just thankful so far that they haven’t gotten too interested in the mating habits other than which animals lay eggs.
So we embarked on our adventure. We blew up our inflatable globe, put together our world puzzle, pulled out the kid atlas and travelled the world. We did origami, made rainforest rainsticks, drew animals, made masks, did aboriginal dot painting, sewed stuffed animals, and visited an aquarium several hours away. And each day we tried some new foods, my favourite part. What a holiday!
Very cool. We saw two swans in a small pond by the sea on the east coast of the island on Saturday. While there, we debated whether or not they might be related to the swans that you all enjoy observing. So look at that, your kids are inspiring animal debate all over the place.
Greatness. I loved having good conversations about wolly mamoths (and sabre tooth tigers) with Brooks and Harper, and he showed me where the African Plains are. I seriously don’t know any other three year old who can do that, just another example of how special those kids are and how much they benefit from caring parents. Love you guys.
@ryan – the baby swans here are fully grown and have almost turned completely white. We went down and fed them a few days ago. You can tell they’re siblings…a bunch of biting and fighting for the food.
@Meriwether – the credit goes to Julie. She does a fabulous job with them, and has far more patience for that sort of thing than I do.
Nice of you to say (and surely true), but there was also an unmistakable presence of a father the last time I visited.