Finders Keepers

Grant has lately been obsessed with collecting objects he finds outside, especially crab apples, walnuts and pinecones. Our new neighborhood has a plethora of these things, and he loves to visit the neighbors' yards each day to see what treasures he can find. 

We've had to set some rules about what can come into the house. Pinecones and acorns: OK. Cicada carcasses and sticks: Nope. He now has a growing collection of Ball jars filled with acorns, walnuts and pinecones on his desk in his bedroom.

Still, I often find his pockets filled with crab apples at the end of the day. And he may have slept with a walnut clutched in his hand a night or two this summer.