Tadpoles and Tykes

One of the things Gabriel and I often do is to come to our little pond and observe. Then he tries to draw what he observes in his nature journal. Having had three boys, I'll fess up here and say that he loves to observe, and jump on the trampoline, and do an archeological dig in a dirt mound nearby, and poke the tadpole eggs, and whack things with sticks. Writing what he sees and does in the nature journal is part of that educational process and something that doesn't come naturall - say as naturally as playing knight with a nearby stick. So here you see a little of what we were observing that day and a little, very little, of the time it took him to draw it and write about it.