Worms

AJ: "Mom, look! I found a worm. It was here in the dirt."



"It's a really nice worm. See? Can we take him inside and keep him as a pet? Pleeease?"

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I guess you could. I'll get you a jar for him.

AJ: We can put the worm right next to the hamster. The worm can be the hamster's friend, and the hamster will be the worm's friend. They'll keep each other company.

MM: Can I see the woim? Wow!!! Can I hold him?"

AJ: "Sure. But be careful. Don't break him."



MM: "He's so cuuute."

AJ: "His name is Jake."



Ok, girls, here's a jar to put him in. But if he comes in the house, he has to stay in the jar.

"Okay, Mom. Look, isn't he cute?"



AJ: "Let's put lots of dirt in the jar. He lives in the dirt and eats it."

MM: "Mom, we're digging the diwt with our shovels to put in the joi. We're putting diwt on top of Jake."

Great job, girls. But Jake looks a little squished under all that dirt; I think it's a bit heavy for him. Maybe you should try dumping the dirt into your bucket and taking Jake out, then putting the dirt back in and putting the worm on top of the dirt so he can dig a tunnel.

No, wait! Not in the house. Take it outside first, please. No taking the worm out or dumping dirt out in the house, OK? Any dirt-dumping has to happen outside."

"Okay."

MM: "Oh, look! Jake came out in the diwt. I'm going to hold him. . . . Oh, there's anothah lil woim."

AJ: That's a piece of Jake, I think.

MM: "Oh, no!!! I bwoke the woim. I bwoke him."

[pause]

MM: "Now we have two woims. I bwoke the woim!"

AJ: "That's okay. He'll grow back together again. His head will grow, and his tail will grow, and then he'll have a wife. We'll call his wife Jessie."




Later, digging in the dirt again:

MM: "Look, here's anothah lil woim!"

AJ: "It's a baby worm."

MM: "Put it in the joi! Put it in, put it in, put it in!"

AJ: "Okay. Then you won't break it. We'll name the baby Jessica. Let's find two more worms to be its Mommy and Daddy."

AJ: "Here's another worm."

MM: "No, that's not a woim, it's a . . . it's just . . . not a woim."

AJ: "Mom, we found a baby worm! And we're going to find two more worms to be the Momma and Poppa."