Hanging bears

Ivy loves those bats.

After our visit to Yarra Bend, where the bats sleep, the girls talked about bats a lot. Their conversations are limited, so a narration of our visit goes like this:

Bats.
Bats.
Sleeping.
Bats.
Trees
Bats.
Bats!!

Weeks after our visit, Ivy started a new game, called Hanging Bears. She gets her bed-bear (a little light-green bead-filled bear with no name as yet) and takes him into the kitchen, where she drapes him over the handle of a drawer. She then stands back and says "Hanging! Hanging!". Then she does the same with Hazel's bed-bear (who is the same as Ivy's but dark green). Then she takes them down and re-hangs them on another drawer handle.

It took me a week of watching this game to realise that it was about the bats, who hang upside down to sleep. Now I've started hanging Ivy upside down so she can be a bat, which she likes.

We might need to go back to Yarra Bend soon.

This morning when I was putting on her shoes, Ivy said "Bye bye toes!" to the foot which was being shod. Then she said it again to the other foot.