If you love an excavator, set it free

Very noisy mornings here the past two days, as a work crew’s been digging up the sidewalk across the street to put in a gas line. Sophie has pretty much ignored the whole production, but Hannah is riveted. She is majorly digging the digging.

Yesterday, glued to my bedroom window, she watched one of the big construction vehicles (a bulldozer? an excavator? if only I had a Bob the Builder–obsessed son to explain) finish up and leave the scene.

Gazing mournfully out the window, she said quietly, I love it so much and now it’s going away.

20 comments April 18th, 2006