Snakey

While I was mowing the lawn today, I found this tiny little gardner snake. Emily loves animals of all kind, including bugs, worms and snakes. Emily has a wonderful naming convention for everything - it's very complex. For a pink bear - she calls it 'pinky'. For a pet frog, she calls it 'froggy', and you can guess that the snake would be called - 'snakey'.

She carried this snake around for a while, showing the neighborhood boys. Growing up, we used to bring all sorts of snakes and frogs home. My Mom doesn't like either, but she always pretended to be interested in what we'd bring home and shared our excitement about findings.

Emily is a great contrast: a girly, girl who loves to wear dresses - yet loves snakes, bugs and any other living creature.