Getting our fingers wet

Another week of life. Another week if sun, outdoors play, walks, and the story The Mud Pony!!
We also enjoyed the beaded felt craft project. The kids all joined in which made this craft perfect for our groups age range. From Truthy who loved to play in the pots of water to Cedar who fell in love with the rolling and needle work. Orien was right there as well rolling away! We started with a bunch of random colors of carded wool.

The kids took lots of time rolling sections of wool in hot and cold soapy water.

The first 5 Cedar and Orien made!!

Cedar showing off his bracelet.

Orien has a new necklace!!

Birth, Life, and this fragile world

We have welcomed 30 new heartbeats into our little world. Each peep a different song, holds a different need and has a name unspoken. It is the endless re-birth that keeps us going. I believe this strongly bring life, hear life, live life. They help make up the Eamonns mini farm. The fragile lives that the kids hold so dearly, to worry, about, keep warm and feed. They are the chicks!! They are just another way to show love and life. The 3 kids helped pick them out, cuddle them under the heat lamps and say goodnight to them.

Life is moving. Changing direction. Cedar is changing. He is gripping life more boldly, more comfortably.. Still holds his friends high, loves his play times from woods to bedroom full of Lego's. He seems more relaxed. He holds a crayon not with a grip but with a soft hold. He draws his words and stories, loves his family, and craves his endless play! He is more and more
comfortable without us. He had one of his first official play dates last week and was so proud. Orien holds these new chicks like only he can. Soft, light and full of LOVE. Truthy clings to me, her endless attachment, the cord still attached with her every move. She laughs in my arms. She tells her brothers where and how to be and carries her babies with LOVE. I am loose, going with the day to day needs. Freely seeing there needs from play, to knitting, to soft holds. Life is now. Our family is here now. We are well...in the now. From Batman, to fairies, to rocking horses.

Pride

well we are back on the saddle! After a long holiday vacation our world has easily turned back into our normal rhythm! Cedar is now officially 5 and a half years old. He has a strong will and big push yet still shows the signs of a Kindergartner. He still would rather have me near rather then far. Yet..he craves, numbers..adding more specifically! He loves his buddies loved to wrestle like all boys, loves to write his name and anything he finds to copy! He holds a pencil with a painful grip that I hesitate to allow....He has started back to swimming lessons and is excited ..yet still doesn't show right or left being the stronger side. He is excited for rhythm, and norm, fights all that is new. Cedar loves the outdoors, building with hammer and nails high in the list right now. Loves to draw from spacemen to papa! He loves to cook and bake. Loves Lego's, and cross country skied 5 miles last weekend!!! For our first week back we had the mellow time to wander the mountain in the mornings, sing the coo coo song to begin snapping, read about the month and start a new story about a knights right of passage. But most importantly he fell in love with finger knitting. He started, breezed through it and asked to do it again the next morning. The pride he carried could have been felt miles away! So at a time when he is asking "what am I good at" he feels good and proud. He is full of love...a hugger at that!

This about sums it up!!!

On the eve

The socking hung , beautiful tree trimmed, presents awaiting...for tiny fingers to rip in the morning!! We have celebrated this season....each day at a time. From making of cookies, to solstice parties, to the making of yule logs. We have counted the houses with beautiful lights, visited with Santa via phone and in person! We have skied on fresh snow, read Christmas stories, made snow forts, and hung pulley systems. We have hung pine cone feeders, lined the bushes with popcorn and peanuts, ice skated and sleigh rides. And now finally it is the eve of all eves!!!

The kids wait for daddy to return from his work and cookie deliveries. I wait for the joy, the eyes that will widen. We will have our traditions of sushi and one last visit with good old St. Nick. And then as we tuck 3 little people to bed...we will wait for the magic to begin!

when you are 18 months life is so BIG

I have been meaning to write now for days. But with the holidays and family time it keeps being postponed..but it just cant be anymore because when you are 18 months life is BIG

A little girl

who looks in a mirror and proclaims "baby"

well everyone is a baby now

A little girl who slurs all

like " I Love you, and Thank you"

A little girl insistent 0n what she wants with

"ME"

and "MO"

(no)

who blows kisses

A little girl who is in love with animals

"neigh neigh" at the top of the list

followed by "cluck, baa, woof, "

A little girl who shoves when annoyed

yells when brothers aren't being fair

and hugs her mamas leg when she is shy

A little girl who looks at pictures all over the house

and glows when saying "mama, and papa"

but yells "moooooommmm"

when the nap is done

A little girl who sucks her fingers,

laughs at her brothers,

cuddles on mama

and loves on papa

light

a few days later

lots of family time

the light shines

The family feels back to "normal"

I say normal very loosely!

Visits with Santa,

chocolates made,

bird feeders hung

mornings of breakfast together

birthday parties celebrated

Truthy always with a book
Cedar always counting with addition

Orien always being thankful and full of love

This is where I want to be

where we are