Anna's outside hobby, on the rare day when the sun shines enough for us to venture outside to soak up some vitamin D, is pine cone sorting. The large tree in the front of our yard gets quite a few pine cones piled up at its base. So Anna feels it is her particular duty to remove said pine cones from the yard and to transfer them to the street.
every pine cone is specifically placed in the street. Sometimes she wanders up and down looking for just the right spot of paved road. I have seen her place a pine cone down somewhere, and then, dissatisfied with the position, take it up again to reposition it somewhere else.
maybe she is writing code. Perhaps she is spelling "help" and hoping some low flying plane will see it and save her from the woes of toddlerhood.
in any case, it certainly occupies her whole soul when she is doing it. I love to watch her. Sometimes I try to make her laugh by picking up one of her pine cones and tossing it toward her and saying "pine cone!" in a funny voice...but she just looks at me as if to say "mommy, I don't have time for jokes right now-- this is serious stuff!"love that little lady.
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That's cute. I love how serious kids are when they "work." Boston is the same way. Just wait until Anna has a younger sibling to come along and mess up her pinecones...
This reminds me of one time when my Dad offered my sister Taci and me 1¢ for every pine cone we could pick up. We had 3 pine trees, plus a couple of overhanging trees from the neighbors. He was pretty surprised when he found 30 neatly stacked bags with 100 pinecones in each when he got home!!! Needless to say, he didn’t make the same offer again.
[By the way, I had not idea how hard it would be to find the ¢ sign! I guess nobody uses it anymore, but I think it's much more elegant thant $0.01]
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