Crafts

Making, merry making, always making, sleeping, eating, playing, making, always making.

Now for some finishing, hopefully, really soon.

I cherish the imagination of children.

We adults sit and the child gathers food (iris leaves) for papa bear and mama bear and she, baby bear no little bear, brings the real food to the blanket.

I drape wet clothes over the rope a few yards away from our picnic blanket and am purposefully silent, a new thing for me. It is purposeful so she has time to play in her own world without me. "Mommy, play hi?" she asks. "I am putting laundry up to dry right now. You play," I say. This casual statement is a bit of a question inside of me, hoping she doesn't have one of those m e l t d o w n s about it. She doesn't. We are all happy.

We had a very rough one the other day. I wasn't feeling sturdy enough to stay in the bubble of tantrums, miscommunications, house chores, and all so we packed the car up and headed to Kelly Point Park, a nice sandy beach spot nearby where the Willamette river meets the Columbia river.

It was the perfect medicine.

 Bea is an artist.

Bea is busy with ideas and play. She is best kept outside, near her tea set, or next to one while they do the dishes. You can cheer her, if sad or upset or mad or all of those emotions by giving her little chompers or some fresh purple play dough.

That first picture of the variegated camellia really caught my eye! There are a million varieties of the stuff. Now our homeland sprouts peonies, roses, and the like; lilly of the valley, peppermint galore, and bright orange poppies. Soon we'll see daisies, lilies, flowering lambs ear, and tall, tall grass everywhere. It is a heavenly time!

Love to you all!

How to make a bouquet.

Bea learned a special skill from Auntie Lauren and Louise last night. It might warm your heart!

Oobleck.

Here's a recipe: http://www.livescience.com/21536-oobleck-recipe.html

Here's the cool part, "Oobleck is a non-Newtonian fluid; it has properties of both liquids and solids. You can slowly dip your hand into it like a liquid, but if you squeeze the oobleck or punch it, it will feel solid."

It is awesome.

lilac

I held this new blossom in both hands.