Merlo

Perhaps it's a sad reflection on my parenting but Xander loves trips to merlo. He runs there looks though the glass at the coffee and it ends in people fawning over him and giving him a babyccino. What's not to love.

Today was no exception and I got him to follow me back to the car because he could see I was carrying his babyccino. I got him to follow me right up to the point where I opened the car door. At that point he turn and ran the other direction when I stepped in front of him he ran back the other way. When I tried to pick him up he laid on the ground and laughed at me (which is preferrable to screaming but still trickier to pick him up). But I succeeded in getting him to the car and wanting him to feel getting in the car was actually something positive to look forward to I decided to risk disaster and let him have his babyccino on the drive home. I only ended up having to change his shirt so I consider that a success.

Stillness

The words float round my head
In circles, they take me nowhere
And sometimes I am simply lost in the rhythm of it all
Like a child in their make believe world
The conversations still unsaid
And I watch to see where it will lead

But in the end gravity pulls me back
And I am centered, far too centered, in the here and now
And I lose myself instead in the moments each day has
Trying to capture one to hold, when I am able

For now the way life blazes like a strong and steady flame
Is so busy and consuming I rarely find the time
To sit in just my silence, quiet, still and at peace
To hear the voice of wisdom and to feel that sweet warm breeze

Moments today

Storytime with Aunty Kirsten



Finally wearing his hat outside

Before disaster struck

I tried to suggest that he shouldn't climb up there, a split second after this photo disaster struck and he landed flat on his back....

Hats

Xander refuses to wear a hat for us but today when grandma said he had to wear a hat or he couldn't go outside with her, he wore it patiently.