As promised, Elijah had his special birthday-present-quilt-fabric-shopping trip today. Just my mom, myself, and him (well and Little Rosebud of course, but I just assume that people understand that’s a given. If I’m there, she’s there. Interesting to ponder when 4 people became a “small” family outing for us!).
I think my Middlest Boy would benefit from more outings like this. With our attention all to himself he was just glowingly happy the whole time.
We got quite the assortment of fabrics to work with. This quilt of his is going to be rather, erm, shall we say…eclectic? original? something!
We also took him to this little toy shop in town. It kind of reminds me of a five and dime. They have bigger stuff too, but also a section of bins full of all the little junky odds and ends so dear to children’s hearts (and greatly scorned by the parents who end up stepping on them or accidentally washing them). I gave him free rein with the change in my wallet and he came out with a selection of bouncy balls; a rather benign purchase after-all. Then we headed to the co-op where he got to pick out the snack; low-sugar dried papaya, instead of the no-sugar that the Mama would be inclined to get.
But his very favorite purchase happened back at the fabric store and consisted of a glow in the dark, planet themed panel that I deemed an inappropriate scale for his quilt. It’s to be a wall hanging instead, but until I get around to that, he’s more them happy to wrap it about himself and declare it his “robe of starry brightness”.
I can’t wait to see his wonderfully Elijah quilt. To have free rein in such a fabric store for a birthday sounds wonderful.
So sweet. And I take it that “Wind Boy” must have been read in your house recently!
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“And I take it that “Wind Boy” must have been read in your house recently!”
Oh yes, but it seems like it’s almost always being read somewhere in my house these days! It’s really fun to have two kids that can read on their own! I love, love, love reading to every one of them, but it’s really neat that the number of books that can be read in one day suddenly skyrockets.
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