Jingle and Joy

In December we had two guests join us - Joy the Owl and Jingle the Hippo. Joy was a good sort - each day she presented the kids with a letter that talked about a fun activity they would do that day. Jingle was a bit of a stinker - he liked to investigate and get into trouble. One day Jingle was sitting on the window sill with some small brown chunks infront of him. In Joy's letter Seth and Maddy were told that Jingle was eating reindeer poop. This disgusted them - but not Kiera! She went up to Jingle, grabbed some, popped it in her mouth and said, "It's good!" Seth was then willing to give it a try, but Maddy refused until I told her it was just chocolate. Greg and I thought Kiera's willingness to try this reindeer poop was quite amusing ... until one day when I was putting her in the van and noticed she had some little bits of rock on her lips and tongue. I asked her what it was and she replied, "poop!!". Oops - I seem to have taught my daughter that consuming poop is a wise thing to do :)