Construction Fun

Today we did something seriously exciting and bold. We (Miss Haana and I) are rule breakers now. The way I look at it- it's always better to start early; why wait?! I must add though, thanks to my friend Christine's wisdom I now know that this is not our first foray into rule breaking. Bluebonnet is our state flower and you're not supposed to pluck it. Well, before I knew that, the little girl and I had been playing in the flowers and I made her get a bunch of flowers and carry it home for Mumma. :-)

Today it was different. Our neighborhood had been home temporarily to a little excavator a few weeks back. This was the little-st, tiniest excavator I've seen. It's tracks were barely 3-4 feet long. It looked like a baby excavator! We'd been watching it, driving by it several times and I had planned to get down one day and go with the little girl and check it out at close quarters. However it just never happened and last week, it was gone. Just the day I planned to make a stop finally, it was gone! I felt so very bad for missing that opportunity window! 

But then, another baby excavator surfaced not far at another small contruction site. And this time I didn't want to wait too long. So today at dusk, when all the construction site workers had gone home, the little girl and I set out for our own adventure!

We walked over to the baby! And we looked at it, the little girl sat on the excavator seat and pulled at all the levers (mildly disappointed that it was not doing anything and wasn't running). Actually the key was right there but I decided that would be going too far. I told Miss Haana that the baby excavator probably just turned in to bed for the night. He must've been tired. I asked if I could sit on the seat with her, and I was granted permission. It was super cool! 

Finally it was time to head back and the little girl bid her "Good bye baby excavator! Good night, sleep tight!" And then in the end: "See you tomorrow!" :-)