Time has flown but Brian and Mike were 2 years old once and I love how watching Willa soak up all that she sees and hears reminds me of how marvelous that time was.  We trade off with Willa’s other Grandparents each week.  The return after a few days’ absence magnifies the changes.  She is maturing by leaps and bounds with growing vocabulary, deliberate consideration before questions or observations, growing capacity to pretend and know it is different from reality, and a huge repertoire of ways to test what she can get away with.  Thankfully, there is also still silly random song singing and pure joy chasing shadows or tumbling on the grass. Here is to hoping that she finds her life as joyous as she makes that of those around her.  Loving it.

What did we do this week?  Kayak; Willa tries her hand at paddling, loves trailing her toes and fingers to watch the ripples, and embraces the tippyness imparted by rocking back and forth.  Looks like this will be a popular pastime.  Water playing; our picnic benches have never been so well decorated or as clean and outdoor brown washtub baths are a great way to cool off on those 90F days.  Intermittent rain showers let us recreate chalk art every couple days.  Hop-scotch always makes an appearance and this week we had to create the “hole in the ground” tree with lots of verse details.  Nearly every steamy afternoon includes a cold, drippy, sticky watermelon treat.  So, what did we do?  Nothing much; but it was great fun!