I am over the top in love with my new work schedule that allows me 2 to 3 days off during the week to hang out with Samson (who I am even more totally-over-the-top-in-love-with). Yesterday we visited a lavender farm with our little waldorf play group and while looking through my pictures just now I realized how perfectly they capture his current 17 month old being.
He is learning new words every day. Words like lavender and butterfly and baby, which he said so clearly at the farm. He chases butterflies, and bees, and lightening bugs. He picks flowers...and then rips them apart.
He loves helping mama. "In the basket", I must have said one hundred times this day, and into the basket he put flowers and lavender. "In the dish" I say at home, when he tries filling up Winstons dog dish with food. This week he helped me unload the silverware from the dishwasher and I was so pleasantly surprised that it actually
was helpful. Two pieces at at a time, he put them all in the drawer.
He has a new fascination with little houses, cars and trucks, and doesn't quite understand that he cant fit
inside of them.
He loves animals, especially dogs, cats, cows, and snakes - which are his favorite animal noises to make. The snake ssss-ing is somewhat confusing since we are potty training as well, but that's ok. I'm sure he knows which one he is referring to at the time, even if I dont.
He is so big and so little all at the same time, and I seem to think this about him no matter what age or size he is. He is still amazing me by way of the simplest things, like saying "omm!" when we arrive home, and by carefully opening sugar snap peas to get to the peas. And now, what to do with that lavender?
