Fish Dreams: week*end

we had a lovely weekend...

i took cj and pollywog to the craft store friday evening.

pollywog picked out a craft that was detail-orienteed

at least from her perspective.

this was a good challenge for her

she can be a bit of a perfectionist

and i try and remind her guide through these moments
but she is learning each time she is presented with these said" challenges"

for example when we color together and she gets out of the lines she is

quick to want to crinkle it up and toss it aside.
but i gently show her the joys of "getting out of the lines" sometimes.

all that said, she seemed to finally let go

and the end was result was one she was truly proud of.

saturday morning we awoke to a symphony of spring sounds.

mowers humming, birds singing, the fan lulling me back to sleep.

it was so beautiful outside that we were quickly drawn to eating breakfast

by the garden. we partook in a rare but yummy saturday treat...doughnuts.

then we spent the rest of the morning in the garden

weeding

watching the different birds gliding through the sky and landing in reaching branches,

and observing the tiny warriors poking through the soil discussing what each plant will become
pollywog is particularly excited to see her mexican sunflowers blossom.
they will display beautiful oranges, reds & yellows and shoot up higher than her.
she watches this growth diligently.