princess
i knew this day would come. we have reached the age of princess fanaticism. princesses princesses everywhere. koruna watched cinderella for the first time last week and now her favorite thing to do is pretend we are all characters in cinderella's life story. i recall as a child always wanting to get to be cinderella, but at least for now runa likes to be the characters with a little more bite. she likes to be the wicked stepsisters, the cat, or one of the mice. so i often get to be cinderella these days and honestly, i find her quite boring... rooster got invited to her (our) first fairy princess party this weekend. runa wore the beautiful beaded ensemble that ivy brought her from india and she went as an indian princess.
i can tell that halloween is gonna be fun.
she likes to do drawings
some moments i feel like runa's sun looks.
some moments i feel like louie looks.
it's a roller coaster ride, raising young kids. it makes me cry and it makes me laugh and sometimes it's just SO MUCH that it makes me feel like i'm gonna scream and throw up.
love it.
rainin' babies
music has influenced my life greatly GREATLY, but my relationship with music has changed since i've had children. up until a few months ago, all koruna would let us sing was "i've got peace like a river". it's still the only one she lets us sing to her at night, but at least now during the day we can sing "deep in the heart of texas" or "she'll be comin' round the mountain" or "happy birthday" over and over to every stuffed animal in the house.
i dig the music that koruna reintroduces us to. i dig how many times a day i burst into song. i dig the sound of my voice mixed with hers. life with children is musical, no doubt, but i find it difficult to make room for the music i love - the music that i know nourishes and informs and alters me. as the noise in my daily life increases, i often choose to sit in silence when i get the chance instead of turning on some tunes. but i want that to change.
tonight, runa and i were running screaming laughing in the front yard when she said, "there's babies rainin' down on us! there's babies rainin' down on us!" i stopped running and asked her to repeat it again.
i had to take her and hug her and try to sing her one of my favorite formative songs - it's not an easy one to sing.
What I'm thinkin' is so delicate If I breathe, you know, I'm gonna lose it......
http://youtu.be/Fzy0FfCUkjA
i was just a girl when i first loved that song. and the sound of it still makes my heart feel like it's gonna explode. i hope music does the same thing for koruna and marvel.
calendar
i love ian's calendars. he makes them wall-sized, encompassing many months. interacting with it gives me a better sense of our timeline. we note all of our happenings - trips, dates, appointments - and we document koruna and marvel's "firsts". looking at it is like walking through time. the current calendar is through june. that means the next one will include the end of the mayan calendar on winter solstice, december 21st.
2012. it's a big year. might as well live it like it's the end of the world as we know it...
