Notes

Bernadette recently demonstrated her counting by noting there were two elephants in the display at the Natural History Museum. Kateri has two teeth. Coincidence? (Bernadette also rattled off her numbers through diez in Spanish this evening.)

Kateri has a clear understanding of books: they're for chewing.

 

Kateri also has a surprisingly pointy tongue, and boy does she like to use it to sample the air and anything she can grab and lift to her mouth. She's holding things and passing them between hands and grabbing at everything. Food is especially fascinating, even though we won't let her have it.

 

Isaiah on the dinner table discussion about palm leaves and what he was thinking and saying: "daddy my head is so full of the talk that I can't eat."

 

Remember when you were so excited about new socks you insisted on wearing them to sleep? Me neither, but I have two kids who are now bedecked in fresh footwear.

 

ice fingers in the stream
An old stone wall standing guard
Winter washing
Murmurs of spring