purple and pink

....with a twist of orange. Purple, pink, and sometimes orange are undoubtedly my daughter's favorite colors. This purple hat, her favorite, is a hand-me-down from her friend in Montana, Bri. Bri is short for Kolibri, the Spanish word for hummingbird, because her pre-natal heartbeat sounded like a hummingbird. Bri's mom, Marcy, is a best friend from college.

My daughter wore her favorite colors and hat for camp at the Green Mountain Audubon Center where she learned about migratory birds. She learned different bird calls. Pretty, pretty, pretty is a cardinal. Yank, yank is a nuthatch. Cheeseburger, cheeseburger is a spring chickadee. That's her favorite sound, and she likes to eat them too. We listened to a robin at home and decided that it sounded like chip, chip.

At camp, she also practiced different modes of flight with her wings--soaring, flapping, and hovering. Fabric wings worked much better than Icharus' wax and feathers, and it was more fun too, understandably. Camp session is appropriately named Wings and Things.