Jasmine's kaleidoscope

While searching through the toy box, trying to find her favorite action figure (Captain Jack Sparrow. You call him a doll, go ahead.) Jasmine turned up an old kaleidoscope. I think it was from a gift bag from some birthday party or other that the boys have been to; a cheap thing, cardboard tube and plastic lenses, a few bits of something colorful and the angled mirrors at one end.

Jasmine held it up to her mouth and sang into it experimentally. It's a good guess, since we play with a few different microphones, and anything you can sing with is fun.

I told her no, look through it, and she chanced to get the right end up to her eye without covering the other end. She figured out how to change the colors around, and soon was trying it with different light sources in the room, the sunny window, her green blanket, the white cat.

I went back to what I was doing while she discovered the kaleidoscope. She came over to me a little later and held it up, since she loves to share her discoveries. I pointed it at the window and looked through, and said, "oh, I see something beautiful," meaning to hand it back to her.

"Hi," she replied promptly. "It's me, Jasmine!"