Indoors

With Beatrix under the weather, there has been lots of inside play this past week.  This week B discovered watercolors, and I realized how handy a high chair would be. We’ve actually never owned one.
 I think I need to buy one for Beatrix so she can sit at the same height as the rest of us for both eating and art.
(she is feeling much better now, thanks for your prayers.  I was worried she was coming down with pneumonia, but her fever finally left, leaving behind just a bit of wheezing and coughing.)

My kids love playing King’s Corners just as much as I did when I was little.

Sometimes we play with this special set of cards I inherited from my grandmother who taught me to play King’s corners many years ago.  Sometimes.

Jonny needs to build a creche so that I can start bringing these figures down, one by one.  This will be our first year with a proper nativity because I finally decided to order the one I have wanted for years.  Of course baby Jesus is hidden high in my closet, not to be seen until Christmas morning.

Seth decided to start reading Nancy Drew this past week, and for a few days we could hardly pull him away from her.  However, by day three, he had returned all of them to my room claiming that they were a little too scary.

Larkspur is tolerating my pulling the bangs she cut for herself a few months ago into a small ponytail as long as I dress it with colorful ribbon.  This does wonders in preventing her hair from becoming a sticky mess hanging in her face.

She is still spending most days in dress up clothes, today adding a signature headband and her baby sling to the outfit.

Today I gave the kids a new set of playsilks as an early Christmas gift, and they were worn by all throughout the day.

Of course wearing capes compelled the boys to leap into the air from the couch, over and over again.

Even Beatrix got cloaked in a silk.

This was just before she tripped on hers and fell down, so we removed it.

I cleaned out my desk and set it up for Christmas gift making.  It is just too cold to sew in the kitchen for me.  Of course for large projects, I would have to set up there, but all that I have to sew right now are small things.  Doll things.

See, that’s the desk on the right.  About three feet from the wood stove.  Perfect.

I am much more excited now about all the late night sewing I have left to do.  I am almost finished making two waldorf dolls, one for Beatrix, one for charity.  Then I have to sew Larkspur’s rag doll, along with a dolly wardrobe for her doll and a couple of items for a friend’s dolly as well.  Finally a pencil roll to hold Larkspur’s colored pencils and I will be finished.  I had planned to make crowns for everyone, but I may have to let that one go.

Oh, and the kids like the new desk set up as well.  They are allowed to use it for serious art, such as drawing pictures to make a coloring book for one of their little cousins.  It is stocked with real drawing pads and drawing pencils which adds to the allure of a turn at mommy’s desk. 

Okay, back to dollmaking.  Good night!