One of SteelyKid's birthday gifts from my parents was a wheeled wooden penguin on a stick. If you roll it along the ground, the wings flap, with a very satisfying clacking noise. It took SteelyKid a little while to get the hang of it, but she's got the idea now:
Really, I don't have anything to say here, other than "Look at the silly flappy penguin toy!"
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A lot of zoos have very neat murals and other works of art. Over the weekend we visited Marwell here in Hampshire: it's our 'local' zoo and we go there a lot. I really like the 'march of the penguins' feature they have on the outside of the penguin pool.
Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.
I keep hoping to get a picture of her with the toy planted in front of her, both hands on the top, a la a certain character introduced late in the Fullmetal Alchemist manga . . .
Outstanding.
Be sure to make lots of copies of all the kid clips so you can use them as leverage when they are in their teens. Cute as all get out today will be mortifying in a few years. Store your collection is remote spots, perhaps a DVD in the safe deposit box, so they don't 'disappear' or suffer a calamity.
I will say it again, that's one cute little person.
How fortunate SteelyKid is to have grandparents who pick out toys that are hard to resist playing with . . . if it were in my house, I would have had to give it a test drive, you know, just to be sure it worked and all.