We walked the booths at the Patchwork Festival where I met the folks who make the candles I love and bought a pretty necklace

friends came over afterwards to have a late lunch/early dinner where we stayed up late laughing.

She is by his side just watchingor walking around, waiting for him to stop what he is doing
even while he is making French Toast, she waitsHe spoils her with affectionand I can see how special this girl is to her daddy.

the inside of the apricotis what they call a nest
and I guess the giant seed is the egg I remove

While I am at work on a beautiful day my family sometimes plays hookie from school

and I am jealous but also delighted because there is such harmony between them.

Especially relieved for a papa, who some evenings is completely wiped out

a little picnic in the park does wonders for his soul

as he soaks in the benefits of being a stay-at home papa, capturing it all on film so that it was like I was there. Then these last, long days at work don’t seem so bad and I am reassured that summer is fast approaching. Happy June 1st.

In Paul’s class every student is assigned a day of the week where they can bring an item for sharing. The item has to be in a bag and can have three clues. Paul loves when he is able to trick his whole class with his clues.Looking back over this year I wish I would have collected each of these pieces of writing. Can you guess what is in his bag?

are the moments where I catch myself in the moment. LIke the other day when I came home to find this jar on my nightstand with the surprise gift from my little boys and a bedroom that smelled like a garden.

Imagine my heart ache when I came home the very next day to discover this:

This fleeting feeling of life surrounds my thoughts and my comfort comes in remembering the beauty while it lasted.

One of my favorite parts of listening to Henry’s growing vocabulary is how he takes ideas and makes connections that we as adults would never make. Like this morning we had a follow up foot appt. to his accident last week. Diagnosis: infection and needing antibiotics. He handled the hour well and so when he asked for a pineapple smoothie afterwards we said sure.

When he saw this out the window

He said “Look, a tree smoothie!”

Today families were invited to Paul’s T/K class for singing, awards, and snacks.
I love his teacher
and the principal and yes, I cried, to see my little boy with his classmates and realize that this school year went by so fast.
Besides reading, writing, and counting this year he also had his first crush (She’s a cutie!)

My friend Sarah has a daughter named Fiona who is a petit three year oldwho lovingly passed on some awesome pairs of shoes.

So suddenly our little walker has a whole shoe collection (yay!)

but I think if it had been up to her she would have been fine taking home the play kitchen with the sound of a magical boiling pot that lit up.I wish I could include the sound she made..sounded like an “ohhhh” with a chuckle.

I woke up to find I had no more chai so I made another batch, but this time I used some cinnamon a friend sent in the mail. Since it was a holiday I splurged with whip cream on top!
Baby girl has officially started to walk so we have new shoes.
She likes to play with the velcro which helps distract her from tugging at pig tails.
We also like the matching books by Eric Carle because then we make all sorts of animal sounds.
Dinner with family and a quick stop over at a friend’s house
with babies on wheels
in every direction and Henry tried to ignore the bum foot.