A Conservationist at Heart

Since my background is early childhood education and primarily English language learning, I'm trying really hard to remember to seize those teachable moments to help Cora learn to speak well.  The beach presented some great opportunities to introduce lots of new vocabulary.  Cora learned seagull, beach, ocean (though the way she says it is not exactly for polite company), seaweed, and shells among other words.  It was so funny to watch her because John and I would scrounge around in the surf to find something we thought would be interesting to her.  But, when we showed little missy our treasure (i.e. seaweed or shells), she would tell us "no!" and throw it back into the ocean.  It actually became a game.  We would scrounge around to find something while she yelled "more shells!"  And then, she would take what we found and throw it back in the ocean.  Funny how she has us wrapped around those sweet little fingers!
Shell captured. . .

Shell released!