Hurray for almost Spring!

Sunshine of any kind is exciting and being able to enjoy it with all my friends is the best.

We have had our snack outside and even lunch outside this week. We have also had some visitors twice this week. My dearest friend has moved back to Portland (Yipeee!) and so we enjoyed having lunch with her and her twins earlier this week. And today we were so excited to have Kim and her little man join us for Lunch and a treat that she brought for all the friends to share. She caught us in the middle of playing with play dough and flubber. Kim is a natural with children and they were just excited to see her as they were their friend.

As you can see in the pictures we still have to get bundled up to go outside, it's still a little chilly. Jack was helping his friend put on her hat.

Yesterday we had irish stew in the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. It was delicious! (Thank you Sally)

We look forward to more nice weather and of course some rain to keep us green.

We've celebtrated a birthday and have had some sick munchkins!

We have had our third friend turn two!!!! We have another one coming up and our other friend is 13 months old (almost 14).

Oh and the fevers and ear infections and coughs and our poor friend that is still fighting the good fight! Yikes...I am sending out the good vibes and healthy thoughts.

xoxoxo

another day in the life

Meetings in the hallway, preparing meals at the table, self portrait with the new friend, all in a days work.

Is it true? Could it be? a girl among us!

Yes, it's true we have a new addition to our crew. It's a girl! I am so excited that we have some diversity in our Tiny Wishes community. Our new friend is 13 months old and, hold the phone, has dark hair.

She is just as sweet as can be and has an older brother at home so she is used to holding her own.

I look forward to introducing her to all of our fun activities and learning from her as she learns from us.

Welcome!

More of Carman's photo booth pictures..

Today we spent some more time across the street.

We have been so "lucky" to have a lot of construction across the street for what feels like years now. The friends all think it is the greatest thing ever as we spend time either on the front porch watching the progress or packing up in the stroller and getting a closer look. Yesterday it was the big crane, today the HUGE dump truck, and everyday there is some sort of digger, mini loader, or bulldozer. The friends have adopted quite the vocabulary for all these contraptions...the boom, tracks (no wheels), stick, front loader, excavator, and more. I never knew that I would know so much about all these machines. I think that I may actually be sad when they are all done.

However, we do have a lot of kids sized moving machines in the backyard that we get to use...

Speaking of the backyard, we have been continuing to work on our fairy houses. We helped feed the birds, and will be watching our first plantings of cilantro, nasturtiums, and sweet peas as they grow.

Out for lunch.

Leave it to the crazy Oregonians to be ecstatic about the sunshine and picnic in the park. That's what we did today. It is so beautiful outside! Still a little bit chilly, but ah as the sun hits your face you can't help but smile. We went to a little bitty park down the street from us and enjoyed visiting with the neighbor cat, Bernie. We also met some friends from another program Head Start and some pre-k kids from a Waldorf program, Wishing Star. Everybody was making friends and gathering sticks and pine cones and dandelions for a huge tree fortress.

Yesterday we turned the whole downstairs pink and red in preparation for Valentines Day. One of the moms came by to pick up a friend in the midst of the chaos and helped out, thank you! Always fun to create a project and a mess.

I have included some pictures from the photo booth option of the computer that Carman has discovered. It's pretty hilarious to see all the pictures that Carman has taken, mostly of herself making all sorts of funny faces...