By Becca • Sep 2nd, 2010
Iris was so excited when I picked her up from preschool yesterday - she’d had her first day of doing “kindergarten work”. This turns out to mean that they take the older kids aside and do worksheets for a while right after circle time. Gah. She’s three.
Neil is playing with Duplo legos. He loves blocks, and I’m really surprised and impressed by how well he can put the legos together and stack wooden blocks. Iris wasn’t doing that until she was closer to 2. She still plays with legos in a “girly” way - she’ll make a long chain of blocks and a shorter one and then play mommy and baby snakes. Or make mommy and baby bats, frogs, bees, etc. (We’ve talked about how baby frogs are actually tadpoles, so baby frogs look a lot like baby snakes.) It’s just weird to me, because I’ve never identified very strongly as female, and I just assumed that my daughter would be a tomboy, rather than a girly-girl. But I seem to have a daughter who wants to wear dresses, pretend to cook and take care of her babies, and who asks me to do her hair in “pinktails” and paint her toenails. (That’s new - until a few weeks ago, she’d been unaware that some people paint their nails.)
Zinnia hasn’t been walking, but she sure loves to climb.
Night-weaning was a total bust. I’m too tired at night to figure out which baby is which (in the dark) some of the time. And, thus, I just nurse whichever one has crawled over and latched on.
We’re having salads from the garden with dinner almost every night. This is the first year I’ve managed to grow enough salad greens to do that. We’re also getting lots of green beans, zucchini, tomatoes (finally!), a few cucumbers, and there’s some pak choi, chard, and kale that’s about ready to eat and a couple of artichokes coming along. I’m going to try and get some more fruit stuff (an apple? tree and some berry vines) planted this fall.
