Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trees. Show all posts

Sunday, April 29, 2018

April 16-30, 2018 - 3 years 9 months



The Elementary School had an art show… this is the group project of The Scream! 
The next day, it was Earth Day, and Kadin spent most of it up in this alder, trying to climb as high as the older boys and girls.  In this pic, Sawyer is the boy to the right.

We are trying to grow some sunflower starts this year since last year they never flowered when we planted them directly into the soil outside.  Whatever they do, it's a fun activity with Kadin.  We poured the soil in, made a little bed for each seed and then covered them up with a dirt blanket.  When we were done, he said, "We plant seeds, go to bed, and tomorrow we eat plants!" 

I have one or two of these shots from when Kadin was an infant.  It still feels just as amazing now, 3 years later.

Biking, biking, and more biking.  He LOVES his new pedal bike and is out riding in rain or shine.  See videos below…

Of course, jumping off the bike to dive into the snow bank is just as much fun!  Even in the rain…  He tried to get me to join him but I declined.


Video of Kadin taking off on his bike without my help…


Video of Kadin swinging like a monkey in Gymnastics Class.


Video of Kadin and Luke sharing some raspberry silliness!


Video of Kadin climbing the alder tree downtown.  
He is saying, "Down, ok. That's how you go down.  Me show you how go up, alright?  This, do that, do that.  OK Mom?  Mom want to climb tree?"


And, last, but not least, Kadito in action… Fun times with puddles, snow, bikes, and Bucky.










Thursday, December 14, 2017

December 1 - 15, 2017 - 3 years 5 months

Kadin pulls another kid with his awesome balance bike on skis during the Wilderness Woman's Contest in Downtown Talkeetna. 
An early gift of my original MatchBox Cars Carrying Case with about 20 of my cars that I've kept for all of these years.  I'm glad he was as excited to receive it as I was to give it to him.


This year we did a "composite" tree with two little sprucelings zip tied together to make one Alaskan Christmas Tree.  
Biking in the gravel pit at sunset – that means at 3:30pm.  Arrrgh!
After all that biking, Kadin didn't even want his hot cocoa and even with a cookie in his hand, he still was about to say, "Me no like fotos, Mama!"  Arrrgh!







Tuesday, May 2, 2017

April 16 - May 3, 2017 - 2 years 9 months


Kadin loves helping me carry things out to the car.

Baby chicks at Mia's house!



Yummy birch sap - and this year, Kadin had his own tap where he could take a drink whenever he wanted.
So much mud!  Here, he lost his shoe for the first time… I think one of the videos is of him losing his shoe the second time. 

Lots of fun in the mud means a mini-bath in the bucket at home.  Which for Kadin, just means even more fun!
Kadin sat through his first movie - watching a bicycling documentary with Sky.  He would burst out laughing whenever the crowd laughed, even if he probably didn't get the joke.  Too cute.


Resting while I carted him home after a fun bike ride.  I think he is wearing a complete change of clothes after all the mud!
After a lot of pleading, I relented and gave Kadin a knife so he could help me cut up the zucchini.  Now if only he liked to EAT the zucchini…



Video #1: Kadin isn't sure he should try to cross a really big puddle, does it anyway.  At the end, when he runs back into the puddle, I (unfortunately) stopped the video just before he fell into the puddle!



Video #2:  Kadin is working super hard (with sound effects, to boot) and gets a bit frustrated when he finally loses his shoe to the mud.


Video #3: The short version of fun with a salad spinner...

Thursday, December 15, 2016

December 1 - 15, 2016 - 2 years 5 months


Eating snow again!

New loft addition and Kadin's play room!







Alaskan Christmas tree… White spruce sapling from the forest around my home.   I try to cut one down that is close to the road and grouped around a bunch of other saplings, to feel a bit better about the sacrifice. ;-)
Yummy smoothie!



Future big-rig driver!



Thursday, September 29, 2016

September 20 - 30, 2016 - 2 years 2 months

Kadin took this photo of Mama and su cafecito.



This is another shot of Kadito the photographer.



Kadin put this sticker on his nose in a silly moment, which was perfect, because poor Mia was in the hospital on her birthday and we sent her this photo to cheer her up.  Happy Birthday!!  Hope you are healed up soon Mia!


Kadin, practicing his tree pose.

Namaste.

My friend Leighan painting a gorgeous sandhill crane on my wall.  It's Kadin's growth chart.

Putting the finishing touches on the crane… 

Now you see me...

Now you don't!

I think he was removing the rock from the road, 


Mi cocinero made scrambled eggs this morning, from getting the eggs out of the fridge, cracking them, mixing them, pouring it into the pan, scrambling them and serving them onto a plate.  The only thing I did was light the stove and help hold the heavy cast iron skillet!
Yay! Biking and high bush cranberries!
I'm going in!  Brrr… it's a bit chillier than last month's swim.  Didn't stop him though!

Since Kadito went in, his Mama had to follow suit, both in our birthday suits, of course!

Video of Kadin biking down a hill, making funny faces.
Here's the link: https://youtu.be/ujIryQOFeLg