Well, I blinked and another month passed! Sigh. One of these days I'll learn (; you've had a vocab growth spurt this week! Little sentences! You've been saying two and three word simple thoughts for awhile, but these have been a little more complex and strung together! It's adorable. "Need milk, night night" was your 230am mantra a few nights ago, interspersed with "baby, milk" and "need mama," haha oh girl. You're SO sweet! Yesterday morning the first thing you did upon waking was grab my face and kiss it! :D (though I do think your sleepiness caused you to think and/or expect nipple, hahaha!) Yesterday also brought, "hold it baby," aka hold me. ((: we went back to mima falls trail east sunday with Kim and Luna to pick berries (your fave), and you broke a stick in half and said, "two sticks!" Whoa! We have been working on two, and colours for a few months now, so this 'two sticks' business is exciting. You're doing pretty well with colours - you know yellow (haha...everything has been yellow for about two months), green, blue, purple, pink, red, black (usually only in reference to "chicken, black" though haha) and sometimes brown. You pointed out the letters t, a, h, e, p as f, and o on blocks the other night! I kind of don't know where this is coming from..! You are a smart cookie!! The other big thing is....'potty trained!' I think it's safe to say you're 100% there!! At twenty months! :D It's been a fun and exhilarating journey together! <3 When The Epic Rash happened, there was lots more naked time going on, which became only diapered at night, and then shortly after it was all healed up we started taking trips to town diaperfree. The first weekend in june when we went to Mother Earth News Fair in puyallup, we drove both ways diaperfree! You only soiled 4 or 5 diapers the whole trip - early saturday morning to sunday night. This transitioned into only being diapered from first wakeup after bedtime until morning, about six hours a day, and then just a day or two before I last wrote, we ditched all of the diapers. Then we got pretty sick); and found out we were leaving a week later for idaho! Fourteen hours in the car, seven days...big trip. You were so peaceful and tolerant and impressively chill with the whole thing!!! Not a single protest about the car either way and did so well for being gone so long, plus only had a couple of misses the whole trip. It was pretty incredible given the circumstances. We also got some pretty awesome memorabilia from your great grandparents, who passed away this summer. We went to honor their lives and I am so excited we got some things of theirs to pass along the generations and remind us of them! We've been back for two weeks and things on the toilet learning front have totally progressed. Last night marked almost a week's time of nothing hidden under the sheets in case of an overnight miss (haha) and I no longer feel paranoid/the need to obsessively check for dryness under you at night (y'know, just in case!), and now were done and its crazy, exciting, and I feel proud of us! We did it, together! You're a rockstar of life my sweet little sun! Yesterday you helped grandma and me sift one of the raised beds! You loved finding living things (add inchworm to the list of things you just love, it's soo cute how you say it) and getting dirty! We also added two ducks to the fam sunday night...which you're so happy about! You love ducks (; you went right into their area, got some chicken snacks, and said, "ducks? snack! chicken no." oh my it was the sweetest! You also loveeeee the pigs! "Hi boys!," you say, and "hi la-ee" (hi ladies) to the chickens, hehe, you basically run the backyard (; you love gathering eggs, too - you put them all from the coop to the basket, carry them in, and put them into the egg container! I love that you know that eggs come from chickens (and soon ducks!) and all of the amazing associations you make. One of the things we brought home from our big trip is a little baby crib (this feels weird to model...since we don't do the crib thing. And we have two. I think about it a lot.) that your great grandma got for you at an antique show...it's adorable! You've really taken to putting babies into it since we returned (and you bonded with a couple of dolls on our trip that joined us at home, too), especially at bedtime. I suggested it to help with the bedtime transition the first few nights, but now it's something you have to do before sleep. ((: the last week or so, you ask to wear your baby first, "bebe, back, wrapnap. please," then tuck her in with your babycow (both of whom may/may not need a toilet break first, hahaha, it's the cutest ever when you take your babies to the toilet! You do it just like we always have with EC, holding them over the toilet saying, 'ssss' hehehe!!), and then tell me, "shhh" with a hand to your mouth, and show me your sign for sleepy/sleeping. Basically melt my heart into a giant puddle of love!!!!! Tonight you wanted baby on your back, but then on your front....so you could kiss her. Yep. I died of the cute. Especially because you don't just give her one kiss. You do this super cute kisskisskisskisskiss kisssssss kiss thing (that I totally do to you all the time!) and it is perfect. You are such a little love! I learn and have learned so much from you! I love having your perspective on things and the constant pull to center, to focus on what's important. Having you here with me is expanding, thought provoking, propelling. So very much. I just love being your mama. These last few weeks I have felt really tuned in and with the flow. I definitely have moments and days where I feel overwhelmed, frustrated, exhausted (mentally & physically), but overall, I feel like parenting you flows from me naturally and easily - when I am tuned in, nourished, and refueled. There were a couple of months prior that I felt quite differently...I was not refueling my mama heart or my bea heart, and it came out in my parenting. I was irritable, quick to anger, and perpetually anxious and frustrated. I've shifted again...into us. Your presence in my life as my daughter has narrowed my path - making it more straightforward and focused; yet in narrowing, providing more space for detours, meandering, and expanding. I'm sure I will stumble from it and this flow a number of times to come, and I'm really reveling in the now of this flow. Enjoying loving teaching living learning manifesting creating...flowing. Love love, my sweetestgirlintheworld. <3
[ chillin at aunt bee's house ]
[ we went to the river with aunt bee and you had a blast! of course, little water lady (; ]
[ you love to garden as well ]
[ holding a moth. you want to hold any/every creature we find! and kiss them, hehe ]
[ late night chats with nana on our trip ]
[ blurry, but oh so cute!! mid-kisses with your great great grandma helene! ]
[ two years ago & seven months round with you inside little sun | three weeks ago with twenty months old you in my arms...same outfit, same place, love! ]
[ with cousin kali! such lovely little ladies ]
[ had so much fun at nat•soo•pah! especially once we got this floatie, heh ]
[ the family that yogas together, stays together! (; mama, papa, & uncle kev all in bakasana while you join us in adho mukha svanasana with your baby! lovelovelove! ]
[ wearing your great great grandfather's hat <3 ]
[ sitting with papa bill in his chair ]
[ nursing in grandma & grandpa's chair <3 love. ]
[ love for grammy on our last day ]
[ four generations! ]
[ little miss big girl at the lake! after our time in twin, we spent the weekend with cousin kali and rita at their cabin in pine! we had an amazing time! we got to go to the river where a natural hot spring was flowing into it and build pools of our own, and to the lake...which was really muddy. such a fun weekend! ]
[ bathroom breaks on the long road home! haha, you're too cool (; ]
[ mamababylove watching the windsurfers at hood river on the trip home ]
[ little mama! radically redefining motherhood. ]
[ so nice to be home and have easy access to good food again! that's the hardest part about traveling...especially to an area without good food. eating in your new.to.us high chair! which is from grandma&grandpa ruhter's...it's from the 1950s and has been through their four children, their kids, grandkids, great grandkids, countless cousins...and now you, the first great great grandchild (((: I feel so lucky that we got to bring it with us! ]
[ I love you ]
[ our hike to lower lena lake last week! ]
[ nursing under the trees with our mandala ((: ]
[ you love to yoga...this little flow impressed me! you slid from (an impressive) uttanasana, into adho mukha svanasana, into uttihita chaturanga dandasana...three times! go saoirse! ]
[ "mhdala. oda." {melt!} commence little warrior/goddess squat. you, my sweet, are so awesome! so intuitive and aware. a blessed guide for me! ]
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