I’m continuously amazed by the girls’ ability to translate the most innocuous subject matter – a TV show, a chapter in a book, a story someone tells them, a transient experience at school – into play. Today, they turned a four-page Ranger Rick story about meerkats into about an hour of playing meerkat, including a prolonged session of pretending to be meerkat sentries who see an eagle, send up the warning cry, and then jump into their “bolt hole.”
Meerkat Girls from Christopher Tassava on Vimeo.