Growing

Looking through photos from the past week, there have been two themes:  the garden, and my children.  The overwhelming thought when I look through the photos of my kids is that they have become more independent lately.  They are all growing so much in different ways.  I have a ten year old who looks up recipes and follows them without my help, and I have a two year old who wears make up.  Where did the time go?

We don’t have any natural bodies of water on our property, so over the years, our kids have dug their own pond of sorts.  It’s like a swimming pool for country kids.

Ruby’s Beauty Shop  has inspired lots of “getting gorgeous.” When I made a not like me decision and bought Larkspur some dime store makeup (she’d been begging and begging because of the book) I never thought that her brothers would literally fight over whose turn it was to help her “get gorgeous.”  Both girls have had lots of fun this week with the “beauty kit,” and I guess there isn’t much harm in my two year old wearing purple eye shadow sometimes.

Funny how she always asks to get wet,

but then quickly changes her mind.

There is a never ending supply these days of fresh flowers (or weeds) from little hands.

Grandmommy sent a check for Lark’s birthday, and she requested a shopping trip to JoAnn for “supplies.”

Seth is extremely interested in edible plants.  This week he and Keats started by making forsythia syrup, which is sickeningly sweet.  Seth has also been wanting to make candied violtets for ages. 

He looked up recipes online, chose the one he wanted to try, and then made them entirely without my help.  Sometimes it feels really good not to get involved.

Pushing dollies around the garden is a favorite activity now that the weather is warming up.

I have to admit though, I don’t love the waldorf dolls playing outside.  How on earth do you clean those cloth faces?

Seth learned how to play Battleship in his Dangerous Book for Boys, and spent lots of time making handmade playing boards last night.  Then we discovered this website, and this printable Battleship game and now the boys are all playing lots of Battleship.  I thought some of you might be interested in this…or maybe I am way behind and everyone else already knows.

Enough rambling.  I am off too bed.  What’s wrong with me, up after 1 a.m.?  This is one weird pregnancy.