Skeletons, Cowgirls, Engineers, and Biologists!!

Monday and Tuesday of last week were the highlights of our week. Those were the days spent with Claire and Chloe. Our little skeletons pose for the camera...
And our cowgirls pose for the camera.....

And one of our little gardener girls poses with Papa....

Busy little Chloe heading for the water....

Claire stops to tell me about something she is watering.....

Eventually they started pouring a little water down the driveway and it would run down the hill. Soon Claire decided that they needed to make a "dam" so that the water wouldn't get away. She and Chloe began to gather pine needles, which they called grass, and piled them together to stop the water. We were interested in where the dam concept came from and when Daddy came home she explained to him what they were doing. He responded with, "How do you know about dams, Claire?" She replied, "I'm not sure!" We had a good laugh about that.

The last picture is so precious to me. The girls are so affectionate and loving as is demonstrated here. Chloe and Papa are watching and talking about the bees that are working the rosemary along the driveway. Their little minds are like sponges and Chloe had been identifying birds that were in the yard earlier, telling us that the family of woodpeckers were looking for food for their babies but that they would be back. Both girls can identify some plants, and Chloe had also warned Papa "not to touch and pick red berries because they might be poisonous." We are looking forward to seeing what information about the bees has been retained after the conversation with Papa, and to listening to them chatter endlessly about all that they are absorbing.

It never gets boring!