As Justin sat, shelling peanuts, for a couple hours in the living room last night, Ellery wanted to be no where else other than right beside him. She watched intently as he held a peanut between his fingers and pried off the shell. Then she would follow his hands as he discarded the shells in the 5 gallon bucket. Back and forth, she watched.
This probably went on for half an hour.
Then, almost as if deliberately, she reached down...
picked up her plastic chain...
and dropped it in the bucket. She then looked up at Justin and smiled the biggest smile, as if saying, 'Look daddy, I helped!'.
Justin and I couldn't help but laugh. It was as if it was all planned out, so intentional and so effortless.
I took the chain out of the bucket, washed it off, and put it back on the floor. Within minutes, the same scenario happened again.
Ellery is learning, even when we don't think there is anything to learn. She's taking it all in!
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