Two!

Alder's breakfast this morning was a blueberry muffin with two candles. He was tickled to be sung to and actually successfully blew the candles out! Then our day progressed pretty normally. Off to school for Alder and to work for us.

We returned to Alder's school to eat lunch with him and share some blueberry muffins, which was a really awesome experience. I have been able to volunteer in the classroom once, but we rarely get to see into his life at Central Montessori School and each time we do, we are very pleased with what we see. They waited until afternoon snack to give the muffins out, and Alder was asked to serve all of his classmates and teachers.

Here are some glimpses of one corner of his 'classroom' for those of you that are interested.


We picked him up a bit early and played in the yard some before opening a couple of presents.

Thought we would roll a garden update into this post as well. Alder has started to really share our love for eatin' right out of the ground.

This is definitely a major reason we just love this time of year. And to make this even better : having a little one around that recognizes this same thing. It is very important to us that he is gaining some sort of understanding of where food comes from...

The garden is supplying just about more than we can eat. But Alder never turns down opportunities to put his dent in it before it gets to the table. He loves his "ahcollee ih uh gahdin".

He eats radishes from the ground. Is CRAZY about strawberries (unfortunately not from our garden). Its prime time for them these days in these parts. And the latest, he loves a big leaf of chard rolled up around a leaf of arugula, big stems and all. He'll cruise around the yard, taking bites from this fist full of leaf.
We are very fortunate that his toddler pallet appreciates the same things ours do. We hope the next one is the same in this way.