My little boy and I were playing outside today after a few days of wild and crazy rain. We’d been closed up inside for too long and were happy to be sitting outside in the sun for a minute.
It was just then that we met this little (well, rather big, actually) lady….
There she was, about a foot away from us, working hard.
Obviously she too had had enough of the rain also and was glad to be in the dry air again.
She was starting a web and moving back and forth, her legs so delicate and yet so precisely creating this intricate pattern.
I’m not a spider kind of girl and we most certainly didn’t touch it but I must say, to watch the web being created literally before our eyes, was absolutely incredible.
My son moved closer and then onto my lap as we watched her work. You could actually see her spinning her web, letting out each piece and working it into a beautiful artwork. He cuddled up onto me and we watched together.
It was then that my boy snuggled in closer and began to quietly sing. He put his chubby little hands together and began….
dee ittseey bittsey pieder…. went up dee water pout.
I began to sing along. He showed me the right way to place my hands, just as he’s learned in school and asked me where the spout could be. Our friend the spider, continued to work, and to dance along to our voices.
And somehow or another, on a cloudy day, after an enormous rain, a busy ol’ spider, my boy and I, created a marvelous moment of genuine curiosity and peaceful wonder.
For today….
~K
