In my last blog post, I wrote about how I’d been working outside a lot in the warm weather. Well, of course, where I am the girls will always follow. Especially outside. Actually they will try to go outside when it’s raining, so it’s not necessarily because of me that they venture out there… The girls LOVE it outside! They really do. They could play for hours out there. As long as someone was with them of course…they do not venture far without someone with them. They generally stick pretty close to my side during the course of a day, especially Kynden who is always my little shadow. I am not allowed to go out of her eyesight. Okay, I’m getting off subject.

So last week when I was working outside, I was teaching the girls to help me with what I was doing. I happened to be raking leaves and picking up rocks out of our yard. Like I said, I have wild hopes and dreams of having grass…and we can’t plant grass with rocks in our yard, right? You see how I think ahead? Anyway I had gotten a little nursery pot for each girl so they could find and pick up the rocks and put it in their pot. Kynden was so super excited about the rocks. Apparently rocks are very exciting creatures. I mean, who doesn’t like to find rocks on the ground, pick them up and put them in a container? Every time (and I mean EVERY time) Kynden found a rock, she would shout in pure joy, “A rock! A rock!” Unfortunately, Kynden is 2. Her words don’t always get pronounced correctly. In the case of the word ‘rock’ the ‘r’ sound is replaced with an ‘f’ sound…and the ‘o’ sounds more like a ‘u’. You get the idea…so every time she found a rock, she would shout, “A fock! A fock!” very loudly…and then they ALL started doing it. Sometimes she’d mix it up…sometimes she’d find a rock that was bigger than normal and she would shout, “bi fock! bi fock” (big) It was just so funny, I couldn’t help but laugh. And wonder what our neighbors must think.