just in time for the weekend

here is an update on this video.

bibliophile in training

kinda of looks like it could be a used bookstore...
but nope, it isn't. it is the nightstand. is this why the lights out part of bedtime keeps getting later and later?

sunday in the yard with nona

IKEA does it again

now he has his own room! and before you say anything, it was his idea.

kite flying

summer country

we stage a fashion shoot

these dolls came to us as gift. they were were unfinished. i gave them faces and hair rather quickly. the clothes were slow to follow. the dolls are so tiny. my attempts at sewing tiny clothes failed utterly. i didn't want to just glue fabric around them so i just let them stay naked.

but recently, as he had been trying to dress and undress himself, he told me the "dollies need clo-esthes." so, i had to try again, but since the last time i had started knitting socks with fine yarn and small needles. it was the perfect scale for doll dresses.
he had fun helping with the photo shoot. it was late afternoon so we kept getting shadows in the picture. but he was good at balancing the dolls so they would stand up on their own.

watering can demo

still canNOT get enough of the trains

we haven't quite outgrown it yet afterall

i carried him over to the post office (to finally send those packages) and back home again. it has been a while but i am stronger than i think and it was a short trip. it was a fun little walk and we talked as we went.

me: what do you like better the stroller or the carrier.
him: carrier

me: where do you want to go after the post office?
him: go back home.
me: we could go some where else?
him: go back home.

saturday in the park with papa

they rode a train.

happy father's day

from that first juneand the secondhe's too big for a carrier now. [sniff.]

perhaps we should get a kiddy pool

a watering can of his own

storytime with frosting on top

storytime was a birthday party this week. there were several books about birthday parties and then at craft time, they decorated party hats.then they decorated cupcakes. (it would turn out that "em-em" taste yucky and mama had to remove them all before the cupcake could be eaten.)
oh and it was BYOB (bring your own BIB. so glad i thought of it.)

thank you!

we have received so many wonderful packages in the mail. thank you.here is one from us headed out into the world, after a little decoration.

little tiny ones

we visited the butterfly place where you aren't allowed to touch the butterflies. but the butterflies don't follow that rule and will land on you. this is a chinese button quail running away quickly.

those cheeks

those feet

a break while running errands

after the post office, the library, the yarn shop, the quilt fabric shop and then the coffee house, we arrived at the grocery store parking lot. he was asleep, so i let him nap. i opened the windows to the breeze and listened to npr. (i'm making a sock by the way and yes, nearly all our clothing is still blue.)