Big Dirt explained

Somewhere in the archives of this blog, you were introduced to the term 'big dirt'. It has caused a lot of confusion, and it took us the parents awhile to really understand what big dirt meant to Finn. Turns out, it is an noun, adjective and verb (what a term!) and is defined by dirt (or sand, or gravel, or rocks or leaves or sometimes food, which we don't like very much), heavy equipment (diggers, bulldozers, shovels, buckets, rakes, spades, steam rollers, dump trucks, forks or spoons), and a sprinkling of imagination (machine noises, hands and arms that articulate like diggers, little guys that drive everything). And it can, and must be played for hours.

Big dirt can be a construction site, which we (ie Finn) have never grown tired of watching before the parents (ie Nick and I) must move on in life. Big dirt can be my garden beds, but not the one with the lettuce seedlings, no, no shakes Finn's little head, only the one that Mama has not been able to replant due to big dirt activity (Buy the boy a sandbox, you say? Have you seen the feral cats in our neighborhood? If you know our family, cats are not generally welcomed and I have no intention of building them a huge litterbox for my child to dig amongst.)

Big dirt can appear in the form of a Finn arm articulating like a digger, accompanied by some very digger-like noises.

 Or, big dirt can be a toy that you sit on in a really cool park on Bainbridge Island.

 Like we did yesterday morning...