Happy Gobble Gobble Day!

I'd like to give special thanks to all the families that have become the Tiny Wishes family. I am thankful for all the amazing friends that I get to spend time with each day (including my own).









Hello all of you and Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope that everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday. Please share this blog with loved ones so that they can see what their favorite person is up to on a regular basis.

We had some visitors today.

My dear sweet friend came by to visit today with her twins. They were very busy checking everything out and then sat down with us to have some snack. The twins live in Seattle so it was nice to spend some time with them. They fit right in, it was also nice to have a little girl here to visit.

During the earlier part of the week we have been trying to get outside as much as possible.

In this picture you can see two friends by the tree where Carman is the only one old enough to climb up. They talked about at great length, one friend said, "up" the other friend said, "up high" then the other friend said, 'climb up" and in response the friend said, "too high" It is really amazing to witness two friends carrying on an actual conversation.

The friends with the help of my daughter sang happy birthday to me yesterday. In fact the friends have been doing a lot of singing lately. Asking for specific song requests, a favorite being ring around the rosie and the grand old duke of york.

When laying down for nap they prefer the baby moon song, twinkle twinkle and when all else fails I hum the stairway to heaven song, it seems to put them right to sleep.

Words and work

Every day I introduce activities to engage the friends in. They may be as simple as setting up some canisters and upside down blocks to play drums. It may be coloring with markers, painting, water play, or legos.

What is so amazing is what the friends will do and how different they all are from one another. I have a unique group in that they are all boys and all blonde. This does not, however, mean that they are in any way similar.

One friend loves balls, another the drums, one loves cars and trucks, another the stroller and baby dolls, one appreciates legos, another likes to paint and draw. They all like books, but usually not all at the same time. They all seem to like dancing and music but it seems to be different kinds of music that suits their fancy. One friend will ask me to sing. Another will tell me NO.

The vocabulary of each friend seems to be growing on a daily basis and this fills me with great pride, even if I'm not their parent.

I was asked this morning if we could go for a walk. Another friend asked if I would read a book.

First we read the book and then we went for a walk. We can make it all work.

Tuesday is stunning and Thursday is COLD!

On Monday we had one sick friend and another that was jet set. So we didn't have a true Tiny Wishes day until Tuesday. It was glorious and sunny. On Wednesday, Tiny Wishes was closed due to Veterans Day.

Then on Thursday it was burrrrific. We still went outside, of course. We played in the backyard and the friends enjoyed traveling up and down the hills and through the bushes. I like to think that the backyard is a little bit like a mini forest.

In this picture Jack was making the doll dance and friends laugh. It's too bad I didn't shoot some video because he had a whole routine for the doll. I think that his sister has had some influence on him. The friends really enjoyed watching and all laughing.

When the sun is out our new stroller and more....

We have been enjoying some really beautiful days lately. I've been told the rain will return tomorrow.... ho hum.

Mostly we have a lot of pictures to show that we have been on a few adventures to the playground at Carman's school. This we have accomplished due to our new quad stroller. I finally found one used on ebay. It has some surface rust and I'd like to get it tuned up.....otherwise, it's GRAND!

The friends have enjoyed watching the big kids one day in the tennis court playing a form of dodge ball. They really like the bridge and the slides on the play structure and one friend could not get enough of the art work on the fence that he kept calling a man and didn't want to leave it.

The friends also seem to really like the new stroller. They can see more and the seats are somewhat stadium style so they can see in front of them. I really like it because I can see all of them and they are less likely to get into each others space which sometimes results in hurt bodies.