As the holiday greetings come in by snail mail and email, I'm realizing it is about time to craft our own letter that sums up the year that is coming to an end. That's always more daunting than a blog post, hastily crafted with multiple interruptions throughout. So here I am with a hodgepodge of news that I didn't want to lose sight of.
First of all, when I downloaded our pictures just now, I found that our camera had been set to video function when we asked my dad to snap a family photo before heading off to church yesterday. It was our first foray to church in several months and due to that, and that we don't get out all that often as a family, it seemed a prime opportunity to get a photo. We have a few photos, but family photos don't seem all that exciting - most people occasionally take a family photo, right? But how many have a video of taking a family photo without knowing you are taking a video. Don't worry, it gets turned the right direction at the end. :)
Today has been a really fun day at home with the girls. Occasionally Alida's notes "Mommy's home" and I love to tell her that I'll be home today, tomorrow, the next day, the next day and the next day. We are all still coughing and blowing our noses occasionally but spirits are rising and we see the end of this particularly germ invasion. I slept the full night in my bed last night for the first time in weeks, only up a few times to take my coughing fit to another room so Alida would not be disturbed. So we are on the upswing.
It didn't hurt anything for it to be snowing when Kali awoke this morning. Not long after brunch we headed out for a little adventure, which included a jaunt down to the kale and broccoli patch (a neighbor's market patch long abandoned but still producing and available for our picking). And, yes, I did brush snow off of kale and broccoli, coming home with two bags full! Here are the girls enjoying the snow. It was cute to see Alida trying to throw the snow, somewhat unsuccessfully:
The last tidbit was Jason's and my astonishment again at our littlest gal. It has been so very fun to experience her explosion of language and comprehension. She is putting things together left and right and letting us in on her inner workings. She seems to remember things and also attach emotions to happenings (like the bird that got hit flying into our door or the cat that showed up at our door one evening - she still talks about both happenings with some measure of sadness at their plight). Anyway, her recent obsession has been with Spell-a-Puzzle (a game that Kali received from her Aunt K years ago). By the day she gets better and better at it. The puzzle is made up of pieces that each have a letter of a word on it and a part of the picture. Then on the back are little pictures of the word that is to be spelled. The game says not for children under 3 and for children ages 4-7. Historically we have done the bulk of the work for her but in recent days she has started putting all the pieces together herself as we hand them to her (we don't dare try to do it for her as there are unpleasant repercussions to such actions). Well, today I was busy doing something else and she was out there working on it by herself. When I came out, I was more than a little surprised to find her putting together a word that she had searched out the pieces for by herself and put together. She did it several times. The manufacturers still consider the game to be a choking hazard!Timer's ringing, kids are getting hungry (which means crabby for one), the fire needs tending, etc...
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