The big girls went on a bike ride with J.C. today, and when they came in, I overheard this conversation:
Nina: "I'm going to tell mom the news!!"
Elise: "What news?"
Nina: "The news about the trees that were died!"
Elise: "Oh yeah."
Nina: "And it killed the pandas!"
Elise: "No, Nina, pandas don't live here."
Nina: "Yes, they do."
Elise: "Oh yeah... the American pandas."
Nina: "And the other bears."
Elise: "Yeah, it kills the bears and the people."
Nina: "Cutting down trees doesn't kill people."
Elise: "Yeah it does."
Nina: "Oh yeah, because some trees have flowers."
Elise: "ALL trees have oxygen."
Nina: "And bees make oxygen."
Elise: "NO!!! We need the bees because of the flowers and the animals. That's why we need bees."
Then, Nina came racing upstairs to me and exclaimed, "Mom, mom, I have some very sad news. On the way home, we saw some trees that had been cut down. It made me very sad because the pandas need the trees to live. They eat the trees... pandas and the other bears!" I later asked J.C. about the trees that had been cut down. He said that they rode by one single stump that had probably been there for decades, and Nina was completely distraught over how sad the entire population of pandas must be over that one stump.
I love that my girls are concerned about the environment. They clearly just haven't quite put all the pieces together yet though, so it makes for some amusing conversations (here's another one).
Note to Nina's preschool teachers... I think I need to borrow that panda book you read in class!
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