Today’s hot new toy is a basket of sea shells mommy picked up at the thrift store. There are six big shells and it turns out that if you take them in the bath with you, they can be BOATS. And the little shells can RIDE IN THEM.

“This one seashell is up here watchin’ the boats. These boats are all sailing. This one is sailing in the boat. Now these don’t want to be boats any more. They want to be FISH.”

In our evening call to Daddy, Ian tried to show him each seashell over the phone.

This morning they were play #1 after stories in the chair. Some of them are still a little damp, so he is shaking each one dry as he goes. And, of course, making up a little story about what each one is doing.

Bonus quote for the day (Heard while reading Richard Scarry’s A Day at the Fire Station): “
Mommy let me count the fire trucks. There’s one. There’s two fire trucks. Mommy there’s three fire trucks!”

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