In Her Element

This girl loves to be outside. She asks to go out all the time, and whenever the door to the garage is open, she goes out and gets her boots on. When Daddy comes home from work, she goes to greet him and then has to be coaxed in from the front yard (or the next door neighbor’s yard). She collects “flowers” (weeds), she finds sticks and bugs, and she doesn’t care about getting dirty. This was Friday morning. She played outside by herself for about an hour and didn’t mind being alone at all.

Eleanor was not as interested in going outside because she had a stack of books she was “reading.” She likes to go outside, but she could sit and read for hours.