attentive, curious, congenial...

I've noticed the stripes on your skin make a heart shape, Hank said as I helped wash a summer's day dirt from his feet.
Has anyone in the history of ever said something so nice about wrinkles?

Where do our eyelids actually go when our eyes are open?

That was a really good book, but there were a lottttt of F words in it.

We're boutta cook crowed Tolliver, as all five of us tried to set a rally record for badminton in the front yard.

It is so fun to become a family of Olympic fanatics for a fortnight.

So do the summer Olympics always overlap with the presidential election?

I forget what you call that plant with the orange horn flowers on it? The hummingbirds really like it!

{trumpet vine}

“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. Children are demanding. They are the most attentive, curious, eager, observant, sensitive, quick, and generally congenial readers on earth…. Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words and they backhand them across the net.” 

E.B. White