Jaden loves exploring the outdoors and he loves learning about animals. He has multiple Junior Ranger badges from our travels!
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Receive Text UpdatesLearning new facts about animals, plants, and places. He reads so many books and remembers so many facts about nature. He loves to explore the places that he has learned about. He loves going to new National Parks and earning junior ranger badges. He loves to hike and document all the different animals and plants we find. He is so adventurous and curious.
Otters are his favorite animal at the moment. He loves them because they are so cute and playful. He loves watching them play at the High Desert Museum in their habitat. He likes that they are smart enough to use tools to open their food. He also thinks it is crazy cute when they have their baby lying on their tummy. He chose otters to do his animal report about at school this month. We always keep an eye out for them when we hike along the river, but we haven’t spotted any yet!
Just exploring! He loves to look at maps and mark off the different places we’ve gone. He loves to look for things, whether it be animals, mushrooms, locations.. He has gone on some amazing hikes and seen some amazing places. He loves to camp and hike and be prepared. He loves hikes that lead to waterfalls.
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