So we went on a dinosaur hunt today. The girls have been fascinated with dinos for a while now, and I have been mentally compiling a list of things they have done while playing with dinosaurs. The girls' friend Trenton will be pleased to know that the dinos he let them borrow participated in a tea party while he was away. I bet none of his friends' dinos have done that!
Lily prefers meat-eaters, but only the nice meat-eaters that eat the "bad" meat-eaters.
Ella is a strict plant-eater only kind of girl. As long as they don't look scary.
Lily brought one of her new dinos up to me today and handed me a red ribbon, saying, "Will you please put this on Alice's neck? She's a girl so the bow should be in front." I have a picture of that I will post some day.
They took their dinos outside to play today. Lily climbed the tree and hung hers from the branches. Ella got some wood scraps and built a house for them.
The majority of the time, the dinosaurs congregate on the top of a bookshelf in our living room in sweet fellowship with all the girls' ponies, kitties, puppies and horses. Kind of like the lion and the lamb in Isaiah. They don't seem to see the humor in telling them, "Oh, those ponies will be great snacks for the T-Rex!"
Dad gets in on all the fun, too. He's given them his own names (which Lily looks at me very seriously and tells me, "He's not a potato-chip-a-saurus.") One time the T-rex ate a bunch of the dinos Lily wasn't playing with. When Lily realized what Dad had done, she quickly grabbed them and said, "then they all came alive and flew out of his tummy!"
She also said that she is going to find her real pet dinosaur in heaven.
