App-O!

The other day, I was in the backyard playing frisbee with Argos and Cordelia, when Cordy found a freshly fallen apple. She picked it up, despite my assurances of “It's yucky! Ick!” and requests for her to put it down. She brought it right over to me and said, clear as day, “App-o.”

Excited, I asked her if she wanted to eat an apple, and she nodded approvingly. So we went inside, I grabbed a nice crisp Gala apple off the counter and handed it to her, while my video recorder initialized on my phone. The following video is what happened next.

Yardwork

A month or so ago, I was raking up apples that had fallen from our two backyard apple trees, and Cordelia wanted to be outside with daddy. She's a great help around the yard, and has been all summer. Earlier in the season when I was uprooting dandelions, she helped by taking freshly popped weeds and depositing them in the pile of weeds next to the green-waste bin (which had strangely gotten further and further away as I picked and dug and pulled). So, since I knew how much she loved to help, and since we have a rake that is just-her-size (it's for raking small areas, like flower beds, I believe), I got it out for her and she went to work.