Walnuts

While playing at Grandma Howdy's house yesterday, she pulled out the walnuts and hammer for Avi to have some fun. The first one they tried to crack open went flying and a stray dog that had been playing in their yard took off with it, so they tried again. They decided to move to a better location away from the dog so that they could get somewhere. Avi started getting pretty good at it, but still sent a few nuts flying. We finally convinced her to use the flat end of the hammer rather than the rounded one and had fewer casualties. We got enough nuts to make our zucchini bread and had to wrestle the hammer away from both girls. Some of them got a bit mutilated, but other than that she got the hang of it.