Because I'm there only until Sunday, I don't want to take chunks of time for Ocean work. I'll write, but briefly and I'm getting into that pace already today, even though I am with my normal routines still.
But are they ever normal? At the farmette, the view out the kitchen windows, past the porch, is never quite the same. Here's this morning's:
We do eat a very normal breakfast...
And then I am at my early Thursday hour at Snowdrop's, but that girl is never completely predictable. I expected a thumb-sucking pout after the bath and before breakfast, but get a giggle from her instead.
After chasing the little one all morning (stand up, sit down, stand up, watch out! sit down, stand up, careful! sit down...) I think maybe I should avoid the afternoon thunder showers and go out for a stroller walk in the earlier hours. She is agreeable, though she does want to make sure that I'm still there, that this isn't some kind of a strange game where I wheel her off into the great unknown and disappear.
After, we play, of course, but I wont swamp you with photos. In fact I'll leave you with just these two -- and they will be the last of her until Monday, when I next see her. In the first, she is interpreting what I am telling her...
In the second, I just want to remind you that even if Snowdrop may seem entirely serious here, on Ocean, she has her goofy moments each day. Here's one from today:
In the evening, Ed and I do our own lovely Thursday routines -- market, take-out, home. Beautiful hours, regular hours, the familiar hours of farmette life.
I never think of her as entirely serious. Always plenty of smiles and laughs!
ReplyDeleteCurious, lively, playful... maybe even testing, experimental, adventurous... sometimes silly...but not exactly serious!
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