Tuesday, November 10, 2009

November Rain

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.