Ducks

Francesca is an animal girl. For some reason, she's really into ducks. I can't even remember how it came about, but for Christmas I gave her a stuffed mallard duck and it is her prized possession. And that's saying a lot because she has just about every kind of Audubon bird, chicken, horse and cat stuffed animal made. During Fruita's Farm and Ranch weekend, there was a petting zoo with mini horses, dogs, goats, and a baby goat and Francesca wanted to chase around, catch and hold the duck. I was totally surprised.

So when we were at Uncle Charlie's for Easter, he got out a couple of duck decoys for the kids to play with in their pond. Francesca was in HEAVEN, tending her ducks in the pond, netting them, feeding them, etc. Uncle Charlie gave her two of them and she has been sleeping with them. They're hard plastic, life size ducks! Tonight was big doin's at Granny's because the water is in the canal, so Francesca brought her ducks up, tied strings around their necks and floated them down the canal. When I arrived, Granny was handing the kiddy swimming pool out the top of the garage so that the girls could float the ducks in the pool. Pretend animals are great. Pretend animals are perfect for age five.