Reeti's birthday

 Homemade chocolate cake. That's the best kind.

This giant box is filled entirely with CHOCOLATE. Sent with love from Singapore. 

Fried chicken birthday dinner

Birthday wishes from friends

Introducing the chickens to their new home

 

Daily Life - Spring

Meal times

Rummaging in the snack cupboard like a mouse

COVID haircuts

Work lunches of limp grass. No mental bandwidth to get a real fork, so this one was lost to slow prong attrition

Playing

Rowan underwater at Goldfish Swim School.  He was so brave.  He stuck his entire body in and only then explained that he was all done with swimming. 

Mina at Goldfish. She is so brave as well;  she sniffles and trembles when asked to push off the wall, but she goes back every. single. week. <heart>

The joys of having an older sibling

Pig pile on the couch

Snuggling and reading Calvin and Hobbes together 

Picnic at the park

Scrunching down leaves

Learning to play carrom

Legos

The invention of Family Date Night - grownups watch a grownup movie and kids watch a kid movie. Sometimes we force them to watch classic movies by Disney, or something awful like that. 

At Stanley Marketplace

Tossing colors at the runners in the end of year WCE color run

Rowan the Builder

Rowan can spend hours building magnificent structures out of whatever materials he finds.  

Legos

Sticks. He is upset because someone knocked over a stick from his piece of art.  

Rowan has graduated to castles at daycare

Little readers

 While making waffles

Wherever I left the books that Sallie kindly brings for us

Reading in voices

On the couch

On the armchair

During quiet time

Immediately after dinner

Not pictured: endless - endless! - audiobooks. We have listed to hundreds and hundreds of hours of Mrs. Piggle Wiggle, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Magic Finger, Pippi Longstocking, and many more. 

Growing chickens

Wait a minute - we are supposed to keep the chickens indoors for, like, 6-8 weeks.  It has only been about 1 month and they are outgrowing their space. They outgrew the little tub in a week. We found a bigger tub in the garage, but that only lasted about a week.

How about a pack n play?

Urk. What are we supposed to do with them now? 

C'mon guys...quit pooping on the wrong side! We need to get cracking on that coop...