March 14: Instructions on how to build your own Nile Crocodile...

I don't know if anyone else remembers or received these, but as a kid I would occasionally get in the mail this zoology book kit something or other thing. I'm sure they wanted you to sign up for some magazine subscriptions, club membership or the like, but in the promotional package they would send these book pages that fit into a binder. Each page was a different animal and it opened up and educated you on all the valuable information pertaining to the animal. The benefit of having a brother 10 years younger than me and then having my own kids just 13 years after that is he inherited all my books (including the zoology pages) and my mother kept them and passed them back down to me for my kids. Reese pulled one out of the bookshelf the other day, the Nile Crocodile page, and my 3 year old has been hooked on it. It shows a semi-graphic illustration of a crocodile eating a zebra and a photo snapshot of one eating an antelope but that did not matter to him. He is fascinated and carries it all around. Yesterday he was showing me (yet again) the page and explaining all the photos and them told me, "these are instructions to build a crocodile." Well ok, this is new information. He went on to tell me exactly how he was going to make a crocodile when he grows up with sticks for teeth, leaves for the skin and acorns for eyes. So smart this kid. Then he saw the empty diaper box and had the genius idea that we could use to make a crocodile. So we did. :) And it is awesome. I'll take a photo and update later but it turned out pretty cool. Have I mentioned I LOVE this kid?