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I haven't updated this blog in over a year...I got busy with life and continue to be, but I will start posting again for our family and friends who are interested. Winter has grown so much since her first birthday, evolving and learning and teaching and being. Above all she is a happy girl, and despite the inevitable and universally challenging periods of teething and weaning and long car rides, she really has a lot of fun. I stopped breastfeeding a few months ago, and I guess we were both ready...it was no big deal. For a girl who loved nursing so much she adapted quickly to stories and singing before falling asleep. She is talking very gradually, I suspect because she hears two languages at home and needs to sort them out before she uses them herself. She talks more and more, and what she lacks in vocabulary, she makes up for with repetition...my little Winter Two-Two.She is sporty and very physical, loves balancing and climbing and gets herself right back up when she falls. She loves reading books and listening to music, though I wonder what child doesn't?I have a new computer and it doesn't want to upload any photos from Israel's camera, so until I figure that out there will be no photos, sorry.I feel so grateful for this little person beside me in life. When I get down, she is there to remind me of all the beauty in the world, waiting to be discovered all over again. When I feel discouraged by school, I think of everything I want to do with her and I am renewed. Her shy little smile is more beautiful to me than anything I've ever seen. So, photos soon...I promise.
Winter is well into her ninth month, and when I try to imagine her when she was born, how small her fingers were, how she felt so weightless...I find it more difficult each day! She is a creeping, crawling, energetic and clever girl, armed with two teeth and an endlessly fascinating repertoire of facial expressions...
She loves to pull herself up on the back of the couch, but as of yet is too unsteady to allow me to actually take a photo...soon enough. If I hold both her hands and coach her, she will walk around, in a drunken sailor kind of way (reminds me of her cousin Violet so much!).
Sometimes it hits me that I have a little girl, that one day I will be sitting in her room having a tea party, watching anxiously as she shows me how she climbs her favourite tree (or rock), holding her hair back when she is sick, building forts with her in the living room, teaching her how to swim, painting her toenails, biking with her to school...But for now she is still my little baby Winter!
Scuba has totally become a little doggy-mama, watchful and gentle. My worries were completely unfounded. Winter doesn't seek her out, because she is not too fond of facial baths-by-tongue, but once in a while I find them together on the rug, engaged in some game of discovery.
I have a few weeks to go until I start school again. Israel and I are watching LOST, which at first I thought was totally cheesy but...well...it's LESS cheesy now. I'm also painting a lot, I have an exposition coming up in a local cafe and am painting a surfboard for one of my friends. As soon as the weather co-operates there will be a new post with all sorts of exciting photos....until then, Winter promises to stay adorable.
My Dad came to Squamish this past weekend to spend some time with Winter. It pretty much rained non-stop, so our outdoor activities were limited, but he and his granddaughter had some quality play sessions on the rug, and Winter never was shy for a moment. Thanks for the quick visit Dad, I hope you enjoyed yourself!!!
In other news, Winter has two bottom teeth now, is crawling in the fashion of a seal, and babbles pretty much constantly. She is so much fun and has a great sense of humour. I love her more every day. We are even enjoying the rain, thanks to our awesome umbrella -equipped baby carrier. I am enjoying a break between semesters at school, catching up on my knitting and reading and painting, I needed a break so badly! I hope you are all having a wonderful Fall, I hear the colours of Ontario are amazing this year.
