Child Care fun in January 09!

Aren't these snowpeople adorable! I made them for Catriona and the kids, for the Snowpeople counting song! Catriona loved it :)

Here is a counting game I made for the kids, the pebbles are suppose to resemble "ice"!

Catriona is testing it out :)

Reading while I was cleaning up...

Hasn't she grown, miss ONE year old! :) Happy Birthday Gabriella!!!

Here are the kids playing with the Winter nature table!

It was much too cold to play in the snow OUTside, so I brought the snow INside!!! The kids LOVED it!!! :)

Family, Christmas 08

Christmas this year was quiet, but nice... I came down with pneumonia for the first time, so I was not not feeling well for a long time... After 2 cycles of antibiotics I finally recovered! The kids were happy so I was happy :)

Woohoo, Santa came!!! :)

The stocking's have always been the kids' favorite's!

Still waking up, lol!

"Reading" a new book! Llama Mama...

She LOVED her doll house!

Catriona and "bubby" playing connect four :)

Yay, snow angels!Aw, she is an angel...

Nature's Nest holiDAYS :)

December was a lot of fun with the Child Care children! We kept busy with our imaginations of Santa coming and crafts and activities! It has been far too cold to go out much, like 0 and below, cold!!! brrr!

Giving baby dolls a bath...The one Catriona has is mine when I was her age and the other one is the same doll we found at a salvage store! I couldn't believe it! Mine is over 39 or so, years old!

Yes they all look the same, but those antlers are the kids own hand print and they loved that :)


On this day my niece and nephew visited! The only one not in this picture is the baby, who is 1 year old now! I got her when she was 3 months old...she's still a wee peanut though :)

One of the kids had the left side and Catriona was working on the right...I loved what she did! She is very abstract with her art, just like her big sister!

Circle of Light

At Catriona's school http://www.ashwoodwaldorf.org/joomla/ they had a Circle of Light celebration to mark the the start of the winter Solstice. This was a beautiful ceremony of light, every child walked around the spiral to get their candle lit, then walked back with their lit candle and set it in the right spot before finishing...when they were finished the spiral was lit with every child's candle, it was breathtaking and the children were all so well behaved waiting patiently for their turn! I was so full of joy watching her do this!

May you always have light in your heart my sweet girl... Mommy loves you.