resolving to be adventurous

So it turns out that yesterdays day of tears by kid number 1 was from a number of factors.

1) Minor ear infection that was caught just in time. Putting a of drop of Nature’s Sunshine CBG into his ear 2x seemed to get rid of the infection really fast. Our herbalist told us about that remedy awhile ago and it seems to work for ear infections almost every time. (Except for the time olee had one so bad that we had to go to the hospital and eventually give him antibiotics).

2) Will has started crawling a few days ago… yes you heard me right, CRAWLING! 5 1/2 months! Well, it is more like an army scoot but the point is he can get from point A to point B all on his own, that means he can scoot over and knock down Olee’s toys and such (and no our house is not baby proofed for that yet! MARBLES!). He is not to fast yet so we can stop him before anything happens, but we are all entering into a new stage from it and Olee is having to adjust to that.

3) Will’s morning naps are starting to get all wonky and irregular and therefore Olee and my ‘Special Time’ is getting shorter. Olee and I usually have some time where just him and I play in the morning when Will takes his nap- the term ‘Special Time’ was coined by my niece Isabela. That time is like pure gold for Olee where he gets me all to himself. The second child moving into that space is definitely an adjustment!

So today I decided to be adventurous and get us out of the house. Luckily Will slept in a bit so we ditched the morning nap and went to Science World! Will was wide eyed and loving it the whole time as he LOVESSSS to do anything out of the house these days and Olee of course loves it there anytime. They have all sorts of movies playing there and since we usually don’t watch TV at home, we watched a video about how beavers make their lodges and some of the ‘Planet Earth’ video. At one point a wolf is chasing a little raindeer baby to eat him and Olee said, “Mom are they having a chase fight? oh, is the wolf trying to catch the baby lamb? oh, did the wolf catch the lamb?”. Yikes, luckily we didn’t see the wolf full out eating the raindeer baby… and luckily Olee knows that some animals eat other animals to survive, other wise that would be pretty traumatic!

And for a little color, black and white color that is, here is a picture from the archives of my parents holding newborn Will in the hospital the day after he was born, July 24th, 2008. So much wonderment, so much calm and peacefulness, so much love. I am feeling that today and thinking of family far away.