Aside from the daily battles with mosquites, her encounter with other creatures include our resident\u00a0load of pet fish, urbanised birds, domesticated dogs from neighbours, stray cats, ants and millipedes. Yeah, millipedes.<\/p>\n
Hmmm, millipedes?<\/p>\n
Story goes like this. We happened upon them on our way home from the nanny’s on\u00a0a fine sunny\u00a0afternoon. I saw one stray millipede\u00a0on\u00a0the pavement we took and stopped to point it out to Hannah. Unguarded\u00a0and full of curiosity, she just stared and followed its trail. Soon enough, it crawled back to its homeground – a patch of soil fertile with its kind. Suddenly, we were all too\u00a0conscious of their presence. Undulating little worm-like bodies\u00a0weaving in and out of the leaf litter and amongst\u00a0the industrious big red ants.<\/p>\n
Hannah was\u00a0drawn\u00a0to these fascinating\u00a0little bugs while\u00a0most of us folks\u00a0prefer to\u00a0cast\u00a0them\u00a0just yonder\u00a0creepy crawlies. Since the discovery of their habitat, Hannah has been\u00a0paying regular ‘visits’ to spot these guys. I just played along to encourage her\u00a0at nature appreciation. There was a recent episode where another toddler (and much older) came along to watch these little critters with Hannah. She called them centipedes and to my surprise Hannah told her, “no, it’s millipedes, millipedes”. The toddler’s maid rescued her from embarrassment by saying that she has not seen a millipede before. The older toddler girl quickly identified another critter on the grounds to\u00a0show\u00a0off her side of knowledge. :)\u00a0Yoda speaks\u00a0“Outdo\u00a0one another, people will.”<\/p>\n
The combination of our girl with nature is too tempting to pass up and so I whipped out our video camera to capture a snippet of it for memory’s sake :)<\/p>\n