Playing in the dirt

On our last trip to see Benjamin and his mama & daddy, Benjamin and I took a walk to see the tractor.  We also took a picnic (peanut butter sandwich and some water).  Benjamin sat right down on 'the log'...that's our spot for watching.

After we talked about why the man wasn't there driving the tractor, Benjamin wanted to get a bit closer....

"That's a BIG bucket!" he said.

He decided to throw a rock or two into the bucket...

"I want this BIG ROCK!"

 

There it went...into the bucket...

Now you may notice a bit of ...dust...from throwing the rock.  Benjamin said it was fire!  I was confused at first, but then realized he was referring to SMOKE!  I explained...

He decided to pick up a bit more...

and throw it...

and some more...

and throw it!

As you can see, Benjamin really enjoyed playing in the dirt... 

I thought he was finished when he wiped his hands off...

I was wrong...

We had a change of location... but not a change of activity.  Now some of the dirt was coming off the 'tracks'.

"Wow, those are BIG tracks!" Benjamin said.

He was trying to figure out what was on the other side of the 'tracks'...

He decided to add some rocks to the other side...

 After checking out the tracks, Benjamin wanted to climb up and stand on the tracks....

 Holding on to the handle, he was pointing out the lights, where the engine was, where the man sits, etc.

 He was cooperative when I told him I wanted to take some pictures of him on the tractor...

He bent down and peeked at me through the handle...

 His Papa came out to see what we were doing...we got Papa to sit on the tracks, too!

 Papa grabbed the camera and took a picture of Benjamin with his Mimi...

 Then Papa backed up to get the whole HUGE tractor...

 We waved good-bye to Papa...