Artista

Winter loves to draw. She has already filled two big scrapbooks (well, actually two of my really expensive sketchpads) with drawings. They are highly meditated, gorgeously complex works that I want to frame and keep forever. She can draw circles and balloons and balls (you get the idea), and knows all her colours and apparently which ones look good together. I love to watch her drawing.




















Winter and Scuba and I go to the beach every morning to throw sticks in the water and play on the slack lines (kind of like a tightrope but a few inches thick and flat)...I will take the camera next time...in the mean time, more photos of the artist at work:

Always Winter...

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.