last tuesday

as she sped away, she yelled "you'll never catch me now!" and she was fast. i had to run to keep up with her. if only my bike had fit in the trunk as easily as hers. she loves to go fast, and ride her bike so well because she is four now. she tells everyone she meets, "i'm 4 now!" she won't say hello though. it seems that 4 is a magic age to her.

watching her shadow

there were a lot of lovely murals along this trail (WOW trail in laconia). for instance, this lovely sunset one below. notice the orange clouds from the sunset, and look, there in the field, some of the sunset fell... ? ... no wait, there is a bush on fire. hmm, take a closer look...

it's a deer. ON FIRE. what the!?!?!

monday

today zoey flew her new monkey kite for the first time. i was too involved to take pictures. it was a beautiful, sunny, partly windy day. she ran very fast to get the kite up. then she tugged on the line like daddy must have shown her a year ago...or something. she's a pro. we also took a trip to beans and greens (a closeby farm we love), where she fed the goat greens, and the sweet baby cow crab apples from the ground. we ran into her swim-classmate nehemiah, whom she happily shared her goat food with. we saw a woman painting flowers, and a little while later visited the teepee made of vines, where she told me she asked me, "when i get older, can i paint a picture here?".



fancy nancy

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a photography by zoey

from OUR garden!

zoey asked me to take this picture. she was going to mary the easter poodle (the pink stuffed animal poodle backpack in her lap), and mini mouse and some other pink animal were their kids, "that were going to pop out after they were married". i swear this story line did not come from me, nor from any tv or movie i've known that she's watched!

Neigh-cha

the rest of wednesday...

a very busy day

i even made these pictures "medium sized" and they still did not all seem to fit. hmmm. well first a waukeewan story walk, then blueberry picking, then a music show and ice cream party at the meredith library, then dinner with the jarvis's. whew. zoey loves to help sophie, and sophie loves to play with zoey.