I love this age...I hate this age...

This small person is running me ragged. He's talking, he's into everything, he runs everywhere, and he is a delightful ball of PURE LOVE ENERGY!!!!

Did I mention he's CLIMBING...and can open the front and back door all by himself now?????

He's planning a road trip I think...outsmarting him is a full time job.

Nature Girl got presents in the mail!

She climbed up to the top of the slide with her stack of envelopes and pieced her gift from Oma together!

HANDKNIT SOCKS and a secret message!

A card from Red Fraggle's parents and money for BOOKS!!!

Nana and Puppa sent lovely clothes and a BEAUTIFUL necklace, for which a fashion shoot is necessary.

Wild Thing is a big ol' DANDY LION in this Nova Scotia Wind!

Some favorites from this week

My gift to Nature Girl

An "add a part" treehouse dollhouse (we'll be adding lots more tree stumps and levels and rope ladders and twig ladders etc. Nature Girl will be helping. I've got aeight more branches cut to add when she decides where she wants them.)

A needlefelted dollhouse family...our family. I have standing orders for a red squirrel and an owl to come live here too.

Nature Girl's 9th Birthday

NINE YEARS OLD!!!!!

She had friends over for a "Dress up and Craft" party after school - Rock Hound made her a bow and arrows. They were a huge hit.

They painted shadow boxes cause nine year olds are all about their collections.

They dyed playsliks with koolaid using the magical number 9 (3 packets of koolaid 3 minutes in the microwave x 3 times)

Crazy busy here...so a reminder to breathe

and appreciate daily rituals, like bedtime...

Sprout who has "bubbas" and "babee" and giggles through his prayer and says "nigh nigh".

 
Nature Girl on her very last night as an eight year old.

Wild Thing who always brings his day's adventures to bed - the duck races balloon and bubbles - and his trusty bedtime buddy gnomey baby.
The newest addition to the bedtime ritual, after warm milk and vitamins, bathroom, brush teeth, into jammies,  but before prayers and kisses and hugs is putting glasses on snow bear.  I love that Wild Thing does this - way cuter than a glasses case!

Good night, sleep tight!