puppet

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dog days ;)

story time

a happy birthday

the princess

enjoyed a mani-pedi on the patio this morning :)

first tomato

and she squashed it

around the yard

a house for Jill

she spotted this playhouse at the library and moved right in!

Jillyface

Swan Lake and an ice pack

for a bee sting

storm

from my front window

Jill at work

Berna fish

last day

horse camp: day 3

Cousin Kateri (in the sunglasses) joins the fun!

horse camp: day 2

no good pictures, but tons of fun :)



Berna's backside under the parashute

horse camp: day 1

what a joy to be back :)

Tintin in the grass

around the yard

a little perspective

Eli has a talent for noticing small things around the yard. Crickets. Birdsongs. Inchworms. All sorts of things that I often pass over as I scurry around, pulling weeds or moving the sprinkler. Last night he spotted this Robin's egg almost camouflaged in a pile of gravel in the backyard. He wanted to hatch it. So we had a little talk about how fragile life is. And in the end, he found a low dark place to return the egg for some other creature's use. Sometimes, when I stop and look, it strikes me that my small yard and growing children are really wonderfully big and beautiful :)

cousin love

Kateri & Berna



photo by Mom