Category Archives: 52

09/52

Iain: After not knitting for months, maybe even a year or more?  He’s suddenly been inspired to knit every day this week.

Galen: Experimenting with charcoal drawings.

Mairi Rose was asked what made her special.  I thought she might say something about her splits and straddles.  She’s forever reminding us how she’s the only one in the house who can do them.  She gave the question some serious consideration, much more then I would have expected.  Finally her face lit up and she said, “That I have an Iain and an Elijah and a Galen and a Seraphina!”

Seraphina: This picture!  Ack!  It’s a blurry mess and I probably shouldn’t even post it, but oh, it made me laugh!  Elijah says she looks fierce.  She had just spilled water all down the front of herself.  Halfway through changing her, she started entertaining everyone by showing them how she could go from sitting to standing.  This girl knows when she has a captive audience.  She’s so very pleased with herself!  She claps when she makes it all the way up.  It was just such a funny, special moment.  So that terribly blurry, ridiculous photo is my favorite of her this week, all the same.

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07/52

I’ve been having computer issues and well, life issues as well I guess.  Nothing major just busy in an everyday busy kind of way and kind of over-whelmed too I suppose; trying to find the wherewithal to muddle through until spring.

Pictures of everyone this week!  I’m rather pleased with myself.

Iain and Elijah: they bought themselves canes and fake mustaches.  Why?  I couldn’t even begin to say.

Galen: suddenly seems so much older and taller.  I don’t yet know how much taller, but we will measure this weekend! (Unlike Iain who I know for a fact has grown over an inch since his birthday last month!)

Mairi Rose: they are working on an African dance routine accompanied by drumming.  She’s into it.

Seraphina: has been enjoying our afternoon walks.

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the adventures of Mairi Rose (and 05/52)

When I transferred my pictures this week, I found a whole collection of images of Mairi.  I must really be charmed by this current newly 6 stage and all of them together seem to kind of make up a picture of who she is right now.  I couldn’t pick just one.  So instead I’ve put together a photo essay of sorts.

wanting to try to do her hair on her own

This is how she bowls…throw a ball, do a split, throw a ball, do a split.  That’s also how she dries dishes, eats dinner, has conversations.Learning to braid using playsilks.

She made herself fairy wings.

This one has been such a Daddy’s girl lately.

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more knitting and 03/52

Anothersledding hat” for him.  Some pompom booties for her.  I tried lining them with scraps of sheepskin, but it kept shifting and making it hard for her to get around.  That’s why they look a little bulky and funny in these pictures.  I’ve since taken the insoles back out.  It’s a pity to lose the extra warmth, but it just wasn’t working.

I’m not the only knitter in the house these days and mine weren’t the only knitted gifts under our tree this year.  In an adorable act of unparalleled, supreme crafting sweetness, Galen knit mittens for his sisters.

And because I would like to start including some of the other children in my 52 series posts, here they are building a flint and steel fire in the middle of a snowstorm!

I don’t feel like I can commit to portraits of each of them every week, but I’m going to try to start sneaking ones in here and there.

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