At this point in her life, Mena seems very interested in nature. We frequently find locust skins stuck to the slide in the backyard. Mena will gently pull it off the slide and then study it closely. She always breaks it apart piece by piece as she studies it. We have a walnut tree in our backyard. A storm knocked a bunch of unrip walnuts into the yard. The kids were using them as balls. One afternoon I decided it would be interesting to see what it looked like on the inside. I broke it open and let Mena pull the pieces apart. She was undaunted by the worms crawling inside; she pulled the worms off and laid them to the side as she continued pulling piece by piece off or out of the walnut. Little did I realize that walnuts stain your hands a dark brown. So far 48 hours later we both still have stains on our hands and I've heard that people use walnuts to make a permanent dark brown ink so it looks like it may take awhile for this to wear off. Don't think we'll be doing that science experiment again!
No comments:
Post a Comment