Rainbow Garden

As we read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert,
we made our plans for creating our own rainbow flower garden,
listing the types of flowers we might find in each rainbow color.
Red- gladiolas
Orange- primrose
Yellow- snapdragons
Violet- Chrysanthemums

So while her sister was arriving into the world,
she was picking out rainbow flowers with Grandpa at the nursery.

And we've now gotten around to planting them.

the Graduate

It was a grand graduation celebration for those seven neighborhood preschoolers. As they marched in full procession I was grateful to have had the opportunity to have them in my home and teach them a small bit of "everything [they] need to know."

We certainly had a lot of fun.

And my own special graduate, couldn't be more adorable or more loved.
I am so proud of her!

Even the younger siblings were honored for having participated in many a preschool lesson.

Baby Snuggles

Zoe Sarah Westover has joined our family.

She has us all wrapped around her finger with her chubby cheeks, dark hair and tiny fingers & toes. We can't get enough of cooing and snuggling and loving this new little one.

Mother's Day

Excitement awaited me as I brought our new little one home on the loveliest of days- 

Mother's Day

They had crafted their gifts with care

and the hugs were plentiful the moment I walked in the door.

'Tis sweet to be a mother.

starts

It may look like this today in our garden

but we have high hopes that we will eventually have a place to transplant these lovely starts

Worms

he spent the morning gathering the poor worms that had washed up during the rain storm.

And after having carefully collected every last one

he asked "where do worms live, mom?"

so we found a bit of flower garden where they were unceremoniously relocated

He hoping that they would wriggle down into the earth once again.

I knowing that at least they would nourish our future flowers.

Science Saturday

I awoke to find the three of them in the kitchen engrossed in a special project:

with only a pitcher full of water

some paper cups

and food coloring

a great science experiment was unfolding.

As I watched them make predictions and then mix the colors accordingly, I observed that not only was a lovely color wheel produced and the properties of colors better understood 

-but a daddy was making a lasting memory and endearing them all ever more deeply into my heart