{p,h,f,r} Flowers, play, ducks, naps

I’d been hoping that this could be a newborn edition of {pretty, happy, funny, real}, but it is not to be…this week.  Maybe next?  At any rate, I’m linking up with Like Mother, Like Daughter, and they’re also on baby watch. 

{pretty}

The garden is starting to go a bit crazy!  Yay!  Calendula flowers are blooming.  The snap peas (on the left in this photo) are producing lots of peas these days.

Borage is also blooming.  The bees love the borage flowers.  The ducks love the leaves.  

Future tomatoes.

Future squash.

{happy}

I love it when my kids play happily together.  The best way for this to happen is for them to come up with the game, of course, because then it can go on and on without interference or input from me.

Yesterday, Naomi played chef to Sim and Tess, who sat at their tables and put in their orders for various meals.  Tess’s order pretty much consisted of ice cream for whatever meal Naomi served.

It was too bad that I did have to eventually put an end to the game so I could serve actual lunch.  Which wasn’t ice cream. 

Tess likes playing with the Bananagrams letters, and she even recognizes certain letters already.  When Hannah told me that Sim had spelled out “Tess” with the Bananagrams, I thought she meant the actual letters.  He got creative, though, and made a lovely mosaic “Tess.”  Tess herself loved it.

{funny}

Really, the ducks are too funny.  They like to all lie down together when they rest.  Here two are lying down in the water bin, two outside the water bin.  How do they decide who gets the privileged water spots?

I mean, really, look how funny.  Can you stand the tilted head look?  Yesterday I saw them chasing flies, which entertained quite a bit, because from the house one couldn’t actually see the flies, just the crazy ducks making short dashes here and there.  Hopefully they got some of them.

When I got up from my nap at Quiet Time yesterday, Hannah said, “Tess is asleep on the couch next to Sim.”  I was surprised, since she gave up her naps nearly a year ago, and only occasionally falls asleep in the car.

But sure enough, there she was.  Sim didn’t mind hanging out and reading Garfield while she finished up her nap.

{real}

But, of course, I found myself worrying about whether she’s getting sick, because…tiny girl doesn’t nap.  So we’ll see.  Maybe she just needed to catch up.  I hope so.