Besides being a great house, the grounds outside are lovely. There is a really neat walkway that runs along the driveway from the house up to the street. While we were there this week we went for a nice walk in the neighborhood and then spent a long time walking up and down the walkway taking, what the girls said, were "nature walks". Below you see Chloe, and in the following two pictures both of the girls enjoying the walkway. Later as we were having lunch, Chloe said, "Grandma, what is a nature walk?" Obviously they have been doing it other times because it had been their idea, but I guess the term was just not clear in Chloe's head.
Looking down the walkway to the house....so pretty and peaceful.
They never got tired of going up and down.....
Notice the sign at the corner of their property advertising the home next door for sale. I had repeatedly said to the girls that when they got to the top of the walkway or their driveway, that they were NOT to step in the street unless Grandma or an adult was with them, and that they had to stop at the curb. Just before I snapped the picture below, Chloe had gone to the sign and said to Claire, "Claire, the sign says, do not go in the street unless Grandma or Nonie are with you." I just let them think that was what it did say, at least the message about the street was in etched in Chloe's brain.
Chloe admiring their work with sidewalk chalk. Such artists!
My last little tidbit for the week is Claire's definition of "fragile". She had been warning Chloe that something was fragile and I asked her what fragile means. She said, "Well, (and she often starts her sentences with well), it means that something is very special, pretty, and breaks very easy." I would say her definition was right on target. Have a great week!
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