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Friday, December 24, 2010

First Birthday at the Beach

My littlest is no longer a "baby"!

He turned one today!!!!!!!


Emers was all smiles this morning....





He is in love with his new tent...


And stacker....


And his first little people truck from his aunt in Michigan!


And popcorn....





After a bath, he played some more...





Walked to lunch at chipotle...


Then drove to the beach...











It was a GOOD day!!!!!


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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Winter solstice 2010

We live in a small space with no place to light a fire and no room for a full spiral... But I think we did a good job improvising!

The girls watched a little bear episode about winter solstice and we read a few books and online stories.

We walked our half spiral and lit our candles.





We lit the lanterns for the snow angels and snow faeries to find their way...


And hung our cranberry garland for them to eat if they get hungry.


After everyone went to bed, Jared and I awaited the lunar eclipse.
Horrible picture! It was totally red! It was the first time we have seen anything like this as adults. Jared and I both remember a summer as children when we watched it (separately).



We even woke up ira.



She said"its red. Im cold. Put me back in bed".

Today, We worked on our season/nature table. Reciting some of Rudolph Steiner/waldorf verses-

Advent week one-
The first light of Advent is the light of stones.
Stones that live in crystals, seashells, and bones.



The second light of Advent is the light of plants.
Roots, stem, leaf, flower and fruit by whom we live and grow.






The third light of Advent is the light of beasts.
Animals of farm, field, forest, air and sea.
All await the birth in greatest and in least.






The fourth light of Advent is the light of humankind.
The light of love, the light of thought, to give and to understand.



Ira helped build this nativity scene with her toys. She was inspired by this book



She pays much attention to detail. Using two dolls in dresses as Mary and joseph after seeing this page



Ira checked the cranberry garland and was disappointed to see that no snow angels or squirrels had eaten any.

Apparently the local squirrel didn't get the memo.

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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Today we drove to the beach

To see the stormy waves. When we pulled off near a river Togo explore- there was no rain. As we stepped from the car- THUNDER and LIGHTENING! I didn't know those things existed here! We stayed in the car.

No fun pictures.


We drove to the redwoods... And it was too dark & raining too hard to find Banana slugs. :(

No fun pictures.

We spent some time in Felton, where I would live in a heartbeat... Then we went to ikea again to pick up the stuff we left behind on accident.
Picked up a snack and Emers broke out in hives! My kids apparently inherited all of my sensitivities to foods.

No fun pictures.

We hope to return to our regular programming tomorrow.

We hung up paper snowflakes and sparkly trees and snowmen.


We found organic candy canes and the girls made new ornaments!

Pictures tomorrow!