Dissection

As most of you know, Andrew loves science.  Any field of science.  But he especially loves learning about sea creatures.  Last week he went to the grocery store with Joel.  He fell in love with the seafood section and begged for Joel to buy him a squid and a mantis shrimp so he could dissect them.  Joel promised him they would buy some over the weekend.

For the rest of the week, Andrew talked of little else.  He just couldn't wait to go buy his sea creatures and get started on dissection.  Friday night just before bedtime, Joel took him to the grocery store and they bought his squid and shrimp.  That night when Andrew said his bedtime prayers, he prayed that Heavenly Father would help him to wake up super early.

Saturday morning, Joel and I woke to the lovely smell of raw seafood wafting in from the kitchen.  Andrew was already up and at it, dissecting with great concentration and joy.  Savannah was trying to enjoy her breakfast, despite the smell.  She put up a cereal box barricade to shelter herself from the sight.  She then ate as quickly as possible and cleared out.

Joel and I are continually amazed with Andrew's patience and focus and attention to detail.  He seems quite cut out to become a surgeon some day.  While the rest of us shied away from the sight and smell, he spent over an hour delighted by every detail he discovered in these animals.