Steiner

May Dance at Steiner School - Janu's first school event! We'd been practicing for the previous 2 weeks: walking around holding a pretend branch of May (blossom).  The kindy classes went first, and Janu was asking 'is it our turn next??' alot.  For such a large group of people, it was amazing that most of the kids just sat still, amazed at the 'May Queens' and live music playing by older kids at the school and the whole festival atmosphere. Very lovely.

We are really enjoying our parent/toddler mornings at the local Steiner School. The grounds are huge, an amazing resource for growing and learning. We make such gorgeous crafts, re-igniting my love for sewing, felting, exploring and playing.

Michelcombe

Is that a monster coming through the orchard?? We were actually watching a mummy with 3 babies vying for attention (perhaps that explains my expression!) This was in the fully blossom flower of Judy's cider apple orchard, where we enjoyed a long weekend camping on her property on Dartmoor. Janu loves camping, slept through a wild thunderstorm & heavy rain.  Best of all was 5-yr old Scarlet, who Janu followed avidly, tiptoeing through the sheep poo quietly to 'not wake up the fairies' by the creek! 

my party

What a party! The sun shone on us as we had an Easter Egg Hunt, goodies and 'parcel parcel' (what J calls pass the parcel). Looking at the pics of me with him on my lap reminds me of looking at pics of my mum at our b'day parties when we were younger.  It was a really glorious day, with my bunting flying in the breeze (one little boy asked his mum why I had hung my washing out to dry). Almost all of special people in England that Janu has in his life, and in ours, came along and I felt really touched that we have such a lovely circle of friends here.  Our clever trick was to invite Janu's sweethearts from our street, 12 year old girl friends of Janu. They kept him happy when the crowds would have over-whelmend him, so he had a glorious day.

ps - for latest Janu action with his cousins, see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DART4eCveZU

Happy B'day!

He's so proud to be three!