what you can learn from lily

Lily is a wealth of knowledge these days.

Yesterday on the phone Ann was telling the kids that she'd seen a skunk waddling across her backyard. Lily's response was: "Aren't they nocturnal?" I love that Lily knows that skunks are nocturnal, but I love more that she uses the word nocturnal.

Lily can teach you all about the early settlers and how they built their homes. She knows all about building a house from sod...and the hazards of doing so, she will tell you, could mean that their are bugs and snakes inside your house.

Lily also knows a lot about fairy houses. This morning we were eating cherries on our back deck. Lily was making some interesting observations in the yard. She found some tiny spider webs in the grass that were covered in water droplets from the sprinklers. She brought all of us out into the grass to see what she'd found and she even managed to find the tiniest spider that had created the web. She was sharing all sorts of information about the web and water droplets. When I went to move a blade of grass to see, she got after me. "Mom! Don't move it! This is the perfect place for a fairy to build their house. Fairies love this kind of web with water. See the leaves on top? They have already begun building their house!"