I relearned an important lesson from my almost-3-year old niece last weekend. I say relearned because I've already been here before, but it's always very helpful to have a reminder.
I had taken my niece and nephew, Corinne and Connor, to the Wildlife Experience which is pretty much a children's museum with a focus on...wildlife. They have some great live frog exhibits that Corinne was really into. At one particular terrarium, I saw the frog right away, hunkered down in some moss. There was a little pool too, but I didn't see any frogs there. I started guiding Corinne, "can you find the frog? He's hiding, in some moss." She looked around, and then stared at the water. "He's not in the water, babe, he's hiding on the land, can you see him?" Though Corinne is often quite verbal, she didn't say anything, just looked around and then continued to stare in the water. I knelt down to her level to see if she could even see the frog I was looking at, and there, in the water, were two frogs staring right at us. They were hiding under a little ledge that had looked like just a solid rock from my giant's angle in the clouds. But Corinne had found them right away, reminding me that there are many angles to everyone's terrarium and my angle isn't the only right one.
And, kudos to my super tactful niece for not up and saying "What the heck are you talking about Aunt Kelly? They're right THERE you idiot!"
I had taken my niece and nephew, Corinne and Connor, to the Wildlife Experience which is pretty much a children's museum with a focus on...wildlife. They have some great live frog exhibits that Corinne was really into. At one particular terrarium, I saw the frog right away, hunkered down in some moss. There was a little pool too, but I didn't see any frogs there. I started guiding Corinne, "can you find the frog? He's hiding, in some moss." She looked around, and then stared at the water. "He's not in the water, babe, he's hiding on the land, can you see him?" Though Corinne is often quite verbal, she didn't say anything, just looked around and then continued to stare in the water. I knelt down to her level to see if she could even see the frog I was looking at, and there, in the water, were two frogs staring right at us. They were hiding under a little ledge that had looked like just a solid rock from my giant's angle in the clouds. But Corinne had found them right away, reminding me that there are many angles to everyone's terrarium and my angle isn't the only right one.
And, kudos to my super tactful niece for not up and saying "What the heck are you talking about Aunt Kelly? They're right THERE you idiot!"
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