Last night K made a train layout with B’s old Thomas the Tank Engine tracks. She was careful to put the traffic signal piece next to the car crossing one, so the trains and cars would know whose turn it was to go. I don’t remember any of the kids who have played with this set over the years worrying about community communications before.
Last night when Dan read K “The Glass Mountain,” from the red books, (photo here) he asked her how she would have helped her brothers climb the hill and win the kingdom (and princess). She said she’d find them a gecko horse. I guess she’s been watching the Kratt Brothers a lot lately. The red books version has nobody die, and a helpful old man, not mystical animals like the Andrew Lang version, but fairy tales are like that, they vary from teller to teller.
This morning, M was the “Warming Spider,” when K didn’t want to get out of bed, he brought her a sweater and socks to put on over her jammies, then helped her get dressed.
The sweater was put on backwards, but it still warmed my heart.