saturday

herbal medicine research (and love!)

and origami

and cupcake play

and pretend play

and talk about sponges

and Santa

and singing

and piano play

and forts

and dog love

and Magic School Bus videos

and Minecraft

and Minecraft video tutes

and more dog (Annabelle) love

and Disney movies

and honey investigations

and drawing

and Art

and dreamin' of promised drum sets

and questions about... er... anatomy

and the importance (and magic) of Prismacolors

and the importance of Daddy

and rain

and conversations about rock and roll

and warm, soft blankies

and soft, cozy socks (it's cold out there tonight!)

and warm gooey pizzas

and Star Wars movies

and -er- Star Wars toys

and Star Wars trivia (like it or not)

and a family snuggle....

and that will do,

quite nicely.

Friday, I'm in Love

It was cold out there, this morning.

"Mom.  I need this for putting gas in.  I engineered a car, d'you wanna come see it?  I think you'll like it."

"Aaah.  This is the steering wheel.  Is this the gas pedal?  And this the break?"
"Mmhmm."

"Oh!  And I can use this for a seatbelt!" says she.
(Brilliant, as always, that she placed the heavy part of the spoons on the outside, so that she'd have a lever, and could actually press down upon her petals to make them engage.)

"Will you play some games with me?"
"I would love that."

I love it that when we play, she tries so hard to show her poker face.

The 'used 600 times a day' rope swing.

Several times each day we find ladybug larvae.  Crawling on us, hanging out on the laundry, exploring the patio table.  

Today I showed the children a good spot to place them when we find them lost and hungry.

Eat!  Eat! 

Elsewhere in the garden...

peppers!

And yarrow flowers,

giant, bright orange tissue paper flowers, (I so love poppies)

apples,

and the valerian is showing its adult leaves!

So exciting.

This day was also a Minecraft sort of day,

a Jumping sort of day.

and a 'let's draw Trevy in a tutu again to torture him' sort of day.

And dinner and a bikeride with Daddy can only mean all is well, hmm?

It's a goodly sort of life.

Saturday's Artist

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the living

let's see... where were we?
oh, yes.

there was this for a few days.

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and then our first summer festival.

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we -finally!- learned how to play Backgammon.

and have had several Family and Barbecue days.

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and...

one,

two,

three days of friends.

just right.