Love, Water Drops, and Nasturtium Leaves…

Today Nicole and I spent a wonderful hour or more just playing with water drops and nasturtium leaves.  It wasn’t planned…it just happened.

We sat up a couple of angles on the camera and tried a couple different delivery systems for the water.

It was a beautiful sharing moment. Time just kind of stands still when we’re together like this. I don’t often allow myself to do these things. There is always “adult” stuff I need to be doing or should be doing…laundry, dishes, cooking, bills, cleaning, and on and on the list goes. I’m happiest when I let go of all of those responsibilities and relax and enjoy my world…I guess that’s what being a kid is all about. I don’t think it’s smart of us to quit being kids….not forever anyway.

In the process of doing all of this, she decided she wanted to make a fountain with the leaves.  We talked about several designs and opted for quick and easy. The water is dropped from above and then beads up and falls from leaf to leaf until it lands in the shot glass. We had a blast playing with this and she made a video of it….really neat.  She’s going to take it one step further and put together a presentation for extra credit in science.  She has questions and she’s thinking and that’s a good thing.

I must admit that maybe we carried the kid thing a little to far and things did get a little out of hand…