Summer vacations began today. The picture above is Ira kicking off her vacation. It’s quite an interesting story actually.
two clouds came out of the blue and crashed into each other one day and made a lot of noise followed by rain. The sun was shining brightly going on his way when he saw these fellows thundering around like loud old uncles. As the sunlight fell on the raindrops a rainbow started to take shape. Ira was walking over to water the trees with a bucket of water in her hand. That's when it started to rain heavily. So she opened up a colorful umbrella. A mynah was perched on the tree and guess what the myanaah too had a smaal wee little umbrella. As she was walking to the tree with the bucket of water a yellow bird flew in from the other side with two snails in her beak. And that's when Ira realized she didn't have to water the plants anymore it was raining already and she started laughing at the silliness. The myna and the yellow bird laughed back.
This narration was completely unassisted, something that came entirely from the kid. Today morning we had been out for a walk with her in a wooded area (you could say a jungle). On the way we saw a mynah (her first interaction at close quarters), we also came across a few dogs. One of the dogs was a bit inquisitive. It picked up a discarded shoe from somewhere and started coming after us (my guess is that’s what got converted to the yellow bird. This walking area is near a park where we often go to and where we have seen a lot of snails during the rainy season. These snails she wanted to see today as well but we explained that the snails are in hibernation. Last year on the first day of rains we had seen a rainbow and explained to the kids how rainbows come about….
essentially kid is observing, processing and then being creative.