Une journée pas comme les autres!

Qu'est-ce qu'on fait aujourd'hui? On va prendre une marche dans le bois me répond ma grande pousse! Passer une superbe journée dehors avec elles, qu'elle bonne idée. Une promenade qui a durée 3 heures ou nous avons vue un Oriole de Baltimore, un Cardinal, un Chardonneret Jaune, des gros corbeau, une maman donner des verres a ses petits dans le trou d'une maison. Ma grande a courru pendant 10 minutes apres un papillon jaune, nous avons cueulli des pissenlit, sentit des lilas, ramassé des roches, découvert un gros Linden et mangé un beau popsicle a la fraise. Ma petite pousse elle, a beaucoup aimé faire la course dans le Chariot contre sa grande soeur, qui en passant cour beaucoup plus vite que sa maman. Et plus tard un petit dodo bien comfortable dans le Chariot. Le ciel était ombragé et il y avait un beau petit vent...ma journée préféré!

The Star Children by Lesa Sevin

Star Children Story by Lesa Sevin
Father sun and mother moon had many children, and those children were the stars. Father sun was wise and kind and good. Mother moon and father sun loved their children so. When the star children were old enough they carried yellow lamps to help light the night sky with their mother moon for all those on earth to see.One evening several stars wanted to play instead of helping their mother light up the earth. They had worked especially hard during those long cold winter nights when the people and animals were sleeping.One winter night they forgot to twinkle and instead ran off and played in the nighttime sky. They pretended not to hear their mother calling and calling her children to help light up the nighttime sky. The star children hid behind a fluffy cloud.Suddenly a warm Chinook wind began to blow. The wind blew with huge gusts. The trees groaned as the wind pushed their trunks and limbs. The gusty wind reached the sky and found the star children’s hiding place behind a cloud and all of a sudden those poor star children lost their balance. They tumbled far, far, far down to the earth below. They were blown right out of the nighttime sky. When they reached the earth below, they looked up at the dark sky. Maybe the sky was darker because they no longer lived in the sky. The star children became frightened, for they were lost. They called out to their father sun and mother moon to ask for help. They wanted to come home to the sky. In the morning, father sun heard his children call. He said he was so sorry, “Once twinkling stars leave the sky, my dear children, they are not able to return”. He promised the children he would think of something.The poor star children were so lonely; they missed their mother moon and father sun. Mother moon also missed her children but she found a way to comfort all. Every night she sang. “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder where you are…” The earth children must of heard this song because all the children of the earth sang with her.Finally spring came to the earth. Wise father sun looked down at the brown spring ground. Father sun decided to bring some color to the spring earth. He beamed his golden light down to his star children and gave them into little golden flower lamps to light the earth. The children were happy to hold the little lamps and bring happiness and color to earth. These flowers became known as the dandelion flowers. Wise father earth found a way that the little star children could visit their mother and father. After the yellow petals of the dandelion fade, littler white hairs form on the flower, which are so light they, blow all the way up to the sky to visit mother moon and father sun when a warm wind blows.

Art by Tanya Davis

I have to share this beautifully inspiring song and video by canadian artist Tanya Davis. It always puts a smile on my face! I hope our girls will feel the same way about art as we do ! I apologize I cannot rememember where I found out about this video, one of the many wonderful blogs I follow!

So I just celebrated another birthday and we've come full circle. As in my childhood my birthday highlights included a chocolate cake, eating out at a restaurant and a trip to a well equipped park. Once again a beautiful sunny late April day fooled me and this time my family with me that I was born in the summer. Our bare legged trip to the beach was greeted by chipper cold wind who came along to say hello. Alas, we did not return the winds enthusiasm, we retreated from the picnic table to a wind blocked play area. Playing with the girls outside is a treat that I won't soon trade for anything. It is usually time that robs parents of theses moments as children age and seek their fun and fortunes on their own terms. Thankfully, sunny days at the park with my little seedlings makes time slow right down, just the way I like it.

Welcome May!

In celebration of May we didn't have a Maypole dance (perhaps next year), we disconnected the TV! We didn't actually move the TV to the basement as we had been planning for the last year but Daddy made it too much work to reconnect that we haven't dared tried. It has been wonderful to see our 4 year old find her way around without her TV routine. We realized how much it was starting to take over and how it was becoming a first resort when she was bored, she was clearly getting more focused on it and it just left both Daddy and I feeling awful. She has been doing so well, even though it's an adjustment and adjustments are not always easy, she has been working it out! More stories, drawings, puzzles and lots and lots of outdoor time. Nous avons donc commencé des petites balades dans le noir au dodo pour explorer les animaux de la nuit! Hier soir nous sommes allées voir les chauves souris du voisinage....