Our little Geologist

The inside of a geode.
After we hammered.

Before we hammered.

Zach is quite interested in rocks, crystals and minerals. A coworker of mine had some geodes from when her son was small and gave them to us. Zach and I hammered and pounded away on what looked like a dirty old rock, but inside each of them was some type of crystal looking thing. By Zach's expression you would have thought they were valuable diamonds (I wish they were). I will have to admit, I knew zero about rocks, mineral and crystals, but I am learning fast as I read all about them to him. For his birthday next week he asked for a rock collection start up kit (among many other things), I am anxious to give it to him, because looking at that stuff brings him so much joy. I have a little hard time relating, as a child I knew all about accessorizing a Barbie doll, but rocks, I missed out on that! However, I will have to admit, it is a little interesting and I will look and learn about rocks any day over playing Power Rangers and Transformers.