Bones.

Lily has become fascinated by bones. I am more than likely to blame. She had a classmate who broke a leg. Later she hurt her leg and asked me a lot of questions basically wanting to know why she didn't get a cast too.

Months and months later she is still asking me about bones. Pretty much everyday she asks me a question or two about bones. I even considered getting a skeleton model for Lily for her birthday present. I couldn't bring myself to do it and got her barbies and junk like that instead. One time when she was facinated by time I got her a watch for Christmas. I gave her the watch at a Christmas party as the gift from Santa. She was really upset that Santa gave her a dumb watch instead of toys like the other kids. So I got her regular girly stuff for the birthday and I am doing the wacky educational stuff outside of the birthday / Christmas presents.

Recently we went to the library and we got every reference book we could get our hands on about bones. She begs me to read her these books all day long. We are having a blast learning all about the human body. She really likes the immune system too, there are cool pictures of antibodies attacking germs. I posted this to facebook and the next day one of my friends brought me books and a skeleton of the spinal cord. Her husband is a Physicians Assistant and had all kinds of medical stuff lying around their house. I was really excited. We were both volunteering at the first day of school breakfast for Kindergarten moms. We were trying to coerse them into devoting all their free time to the school like we do. They probably think we are nuts, skeletons and hugging? Kinda weird.

I was thinking of going to a radiologist and begging to see some xrays. Lily really wants to see some xrays. The letter X and bones. It is our current mission in life to see an xray. Preferably with a real broken bone. Maybe we will bring cookies. What do you think? Do you think we can coerce someone into letting us see a real xray?