SIGNS OF SUMMER

While it´s still officially spring, signs of summer have come to stay. where we live, the differences in the seasons are very, very notorious, specially in the colors. winter, summer and fall, the grass everywhere is bright green. The brightest green you´ve ever seen. Summer is a whole other thing, another pallete: GOLD. Every. where. you. look. golden golden dry and oh so hot.
I actually haven´t blogged in a while, and here i am, rambling about the color of grass, as if there´s nothing more to share. The truth is, Carlos has made HUGE progress on the building of our house, i took some photos a couple days ago but they allready seem outdated, it´s changing so fast! So i think i´ll better come back tomorrow to share some fresh ones.
Balthazar, my adored little boy is eight months today. He began crawling, in a comando style, this week, and has six teeth, two on the bottom on four on the top. he´s funny and cute and loves to giggle. i love him with every cell in my body, every thought in my mind and all the spark in my soul.
ps: cherries and peaches are in season. yum.
pps: this post is dedicated to my friend María in Switzerland who wrote my an email and told me to keep posting
ppps: happy 11 11 11

Mama-made pants

I am no pro sewer, and had never made pants before, but turns out, I had to. There really aren´t many choices when it comes to shopping for baby clothes around here, and honestly, I needed the challenge, boy needed pants and it was fun all the while! I was getting more and more "crafty" during my pregnancy, but since the bub came earthside, I had not yet found the time/energy to persue any project beyond keeping the house somewhat clean and tidy, having food on the table and keeping baby happy, fed, clean and warm. But thus no more! I am back! Sewing machine you are a good friend oh yes indeed. I wanted to make pants that woold be sort of "bloomers", so I followed this tutorial, omiting the ruffles and freestyling a bit here and there.

First I made these ones with a thrifted "horses on a landscape" cotton printed fabric. I´m actually very happy with how they turned out. I don´t know if you can notice from the photos, but the hoses are "feet-up" jeje, my bad, but hey, my mum saw them and realised: you made them like that so that Balthazar can see the horses right side up from up! Smart lady indeed.

And then I made these ones from a soft striped wool fabric. They´re nice and soft but the cut is a little off, I wasn´t really going for this aladinesque sillouette, but oh well. On other news, tomorrow is my birthday, and I am very proud to say I will be thirty. A thirty year old wife and mama, smile.

Let me show you

This is what our house-in-the-making looks from where our composting bin will be

And these are some of the views from inside

Lately we´ve been...

MORNING WALKING

CONSTRUCTION PROGRESSING!

ADMIRING

PRACTICING

BABY-LED WEANING

Construction Progress Update!

As you can see, the floor is almost done!! Next up: Walls!!! Exciting stuff for sure!!! xx

In the box

Hello my Peoples!! I missed you! Did you miss me? Been away from here looong long, but well, I guess not much news to share except: Baby is growing by the second and mighty cute! Construction of our house in a lot of progress, (photos soon , I promise) Carlos has been doing an amazing one-man-job while I watch over house and baby matters... So I came by to post some pics of my bub playing inside a box for the first time in this lifetime, today, hooray! xxx!

It´s a very happy half-a-birthday to you!

Half a year of mothering today. My boy so close to my heart, oh boy I love you. Made a paper crown for him in the morning, I gave him a wooden spoon to play with and papa a cassette tape. Later my parents came for a barbecue and we even had a tiny cake and blew candles! I was quite excited and singing happy half a birthday all day! On other news: I´ve been trying the baby led aproach to solids, but still haven´t gotten the whole hang of it. Avocado pieces are way to slippery for him to grab (I read you´re supposed to coat them on some kind of dust but I´m not sure what...) and today he was very happily munching on some cooked carrot batons, but a whole chunk came out the *other way*, undigested! (should I have cooked them a little more?) Any of you fellow mamas got any tips on this? So I´m very warm-hearted and tired and going to sleep now, I thought I´d post our birth story to celebrate but even though I´ve written it threee times, it still doesn´t seem just right... Good nite!

SIGNS OF SPRING

Been collecting images to show you guys how the spring is manifesting here in all its glory

p.s.: the photos are in a really high resolution, click on them to view larger. :)

THE LIGHT

a trip to the city and some family time-- balthazar so happy to play with his big cousin lupe-- a sun shiny day-- so hot!-- the sping is here-- soon a glimpse of the spring here farmside--