Here is what we did the other day playing outside. It turns out Clara is a bit of a specialist…

I made Ivy a “helicopter” with some duck feathers and she ran all over throwing it around.

Clara ate a feather.

Ivy did somersaults.

Clara ate a water hose.

True confession time:  This is actually a picture of what happens when Clara is eating a water hose while Ivy is doing somersaults and my inattentive self is just sitting in the shade taking pictures.  Ivy unnoticed by me grabbed part of the hose, and was just starting to rip it out of Clara’s mouth as the picture was taken. Oops!

Ivy threw her feather some more.

Clara ate dirt. Then Ivy joined Clara and showed her how to pretend to be a dog and dig in the dirt.

The dirt that I had finally used to fill holes Storm dug as a puppy over two years ago.

I let them dig, I thought my little specialist could use to expand her horizons.

Then Clara ate more dirt.

I gave up on horizon expanding and we went inside for  nap time.