Just One of the Frogs

It is wonderful to be home, and even better to see Ingrid have so much fun playing in the yard in which I grew up. Grandma's figurines and statues of turtles, frogs, fish, bears, pigs, cats, scorpions, birds and other wildlife have Ingrid totally captivated. And to see real life birds and squirrels, bugs and salamanders is almost too much for the girl who is wildlife deprived living in our high-rise HK abode. I catch myself trying to show Ingrid ways to better her playtime based on my past experience....'Ingrid, check this out' or 'Ingrid, look at this area of the yard over here....'....but then I stop and just watch her do her thing. She smashes dirt onto herself She chucks rocks. She touches spider webs. I just let her.