Bridges is pretty good with the made-up stories, but my imagination sometimes fails me and I end up telling her about real things, which seem equally as interesting to her.
Two favorites this summer were Mt. Everest and Jacques Cousteau. Lee got very interested in Mt. Everest, especially the dangerous aspects of it. We took some books out of the library, and she talked about Mt. Everest frequently. She learned about the snow line and the tree line, and Sherpas, and about all the different equipment you need for high altitude climbing.
She loved to also hear about Jacques Cousteau and the world underneath the ocean. I told her about how he invented scuba equipment, and how he discovered a whole new world that no one else had seen before.
As the summer wore on, Lee became more comfortable in the lake and started wearing her goggles and swimming underneath the surface.
"Mommy, it's a whole new world under here!" she exclaimed one of the first times she clearly saw under the water. She was just full of the joy of discovery. After that she would swim under the water, coming up to announce that she'd seen a big fish or a little fish, or showing us a particularly pretty rock.
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Good work, Ruth - sounds like a budding adventurologist!!
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