Yesterday me and the stinker went for a walk in the arboretum again, and for a while we rested in a little area that has these marble creations. One of the marble items is a sphere that just sits in the grass, and Nolan was all too excited to find a BALL! in the middle of this garden. While I sat and watched, he soon found out that he couldn’t kick the ‘ball’ as he had first intended, nor that he could really do anything else with it from what he was used to with any other balls he’s come across in his life. So I just watched and captured his patient process of figuring out exactly what kind of fun he could have with a ball that did. not. move.

THEN! He finally came up with the perfect activity for a ball in such position, the one thing you can not do on any of the other balls he’s known:

You stand on it of course!