dinosaur eggs

A while back I had posted about our trip to Salmon River Falls and having lunch by the lake after.  It was a very rocky coast and the girls loved throwing the rocks into the lake. 

While we were looking for rocks I began to call the very smooth oval shaped rocks "dinosaur eggs".  The girls quickly began to scoop up some of the "dinosaur eggs" to take with them in the car.  Actually one "egg" turned into a weapon when Abbie whipped it from her seat to the front seat during a tantrum (luckily it just missed Daddy's head...Abbie's dinosaur egg was then confiscated for the rest of the trip)...but that story is neither here or there.  Anyway...the girls played with their "dinosaur eggs" when they got home but never did it go in the direction that it did a few weeks later. 

I think it began by the girls starting to "pretend" that the eggs were real. Then Sophie took it a step further and began to "believe" they were real (I'm blaming the show Dinosaur Dan for my daughters distorted view of reality).   Sophie thought they were hatching since some of the rocks had little valleys in them.  So Sophie set up this little contraption before going to bed...

In the morning she had sworn that one had hatched and it was loose in our house...by the middle of the day she had moved on. 

Oh how I love to watch the littles play...I really do wish they could stay this age for just a little longer.