A-chan and I put together a wooden model of a Dimetrodon this morning. We'd bought the model at a yard sale a couple of years ago and kept it waiting til she was old enough to help put it together. After completing the model we looked up the dinosaur in her huge book from Amma and learned all about the Dimetrodon. Next we looked up all the dinosaurs that Santa had given her at Christmas this year: Triceratops, Spinosaurus and Brachiosaurus.
She spent the next hour being "Miss Paleontologist" (who is 27 years old) and pretending to be in a museum giving tours of her dinosaurs and telling people all about them. I bought a ticket and joined the tour to be told the story of how she found the dimetrodon skeleton: it had tried to catch a bird by climbing into a tree in the backyard but the bird had pecked at it so much that it had died. She then found the bones and had to put them together like a puzzle and then brought it to the museum. She also told me all about the things we'd learned in the book: the sail was used to heat or cool the dinosaur, it had sharp teeth and was a meat eater, it's sail was just as tall as a human but it's whole body was longer than a human is tall.
It was so incredibly cute and it was fun to play museum. As I write this she is still perusing the dinosaur book and finding interesting ones that catch her eye to read about.
