Dinosaur Bones!

Today we took Jackson and Liz (Micaela had a date with Grandma) to Elephant Mountain to explore and Jackson hoped to find some dinosaur bones! He even took some tools he's read that paleontologists use. The mountain is very steep and tough for little legs. There was a crevice in the mountain that we climbed up into and scared a big bird out of. Lizzy was fearless. She kept telling Dean to put her down. Crazy girl! Jackson was never really worried he just insisted on having some help, very sensible! Once we were up all the way we continued our fossil search. I was just trying to let Jackson's imagination and love of dinosaurs lead our play. But what did we find? Bones! They are too small to call dinosaur bones but we did call them prehistoric critter bones. Prehistoric can mean "swallowed by a bird a week ago," right? He sifted through the rocks and dirt and found quite a few. I was pleasantly surprised at our luck to have picked a large birds nest area to explore. Now he plans to put them together.