dandelions

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When Sarah sees a dandelion in our yard, she picks it. Then she holds it in her hands so that the flower sticks out toward me. "Momma had a baby," she chants, with her thumbs behind the blossom, "but the head POPPED OFF!" And on those words, she does her best to pop the flower off the stalk and at my face.

She says she learned this from Zach and Max.
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Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

I find it heartwarming to hear that kids still do this.

I could never get the head to pop off either.

[meggins.livejournal.com]

And to think all I ever did was blow the seeds off. Does she know the buttercup trick? ("Do you like butter? You must. Your chin is yellow. Said while holding a buttercup under someone's chin.)

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

My kids did this when they were little, 20 and more years ago.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Do you know the nursery rhymme "Miss Polly had a dolly"? Because in my childhood the first line of that was followed by the second line you mention, and it tended to be played with boys' sister's dolls, in the same fashion.