Bella, my niece's daughter goes full tilt most of the time, like any normal toddler. The last time she visited my parents' place, she was fascinated with the piano, and spent most of her time playing on it. This time when she got to their house, it was no different. She remembered the piano and made a beeline for it as soon as she was in the door.
After a little bit, she decided to check other things out, and looked out to see birds on the porch. The birds would swoop down, hop under the bushes and disappear. Bella wanted to know where they were, so I told her they were probably playing hide and seek. After that, every time she'd see a bird, and it would disappear, she'd yell, "seek, seek, birdy, seek!" When they'd come out, she'd yell, "hide birdies!"
During all this a chipmunk decided to show up. Bella didn't know what it was, but figured it was playing hide and seek with the birds. I told her it was a chipmunk, and asked if she could say that. Well, she did her best, for her age, and me, well, I'll never see a "chipmunk" ever again; instead, they will forever more be known as "chigga-munks".
If that weren't enough, a deer decided to show up also. Bella decided she needed to be on the porch for a better look; so out we went. For about 5 minutes or so, Bella and the deer just watched each other, then, they evidently both got bored with staring, because the deer wandered off, and Bella was ready to go in the house.
After that, it was back in the house and the piano. Sometime during the day, my mom had given Bella two Disney books about cats and dogs. Bella went to the piano with her books and started singing about them. My son, Josh, happened to have his camera ready, and shot the cutest video of Bella playing and singing; until she noticed he was there! What a fun day we had!
A few days later, Josh noticed that my parents' waterfall pool had tadpoles in it. Not surprising, since he'd already discovered at least one frog there about a month ago. Evidently there were at least two, since there's plenty of tadpoles now!
Ever the wildlife photographer, Josh decided he needed at least a picture of the tadpoles, and proceeded to try and get some good shots. He then decided to put the lens of his camera into the pond and try videotaping the tadpoles. He got a pretty good video of it, and fortunately didn't hurt his camera!
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