The Life of Savages

Play track 11

This is the song that Lily has been singing non-stop.  When she first started asking me to put this on for her, she would sing a part and I was supposed to decipher it.  I could clearly hear the tune, but she didn’t quite know all the words and it sounded like she was singing about the sun and the moon.  I was thinking to myself – grrrrreat, she is going to this preschool that is teaching her New Agey , praise-the-creation songs.  I was not happy. . . until Brian recognized it as a praise song that was done (I think for the first time) that Sunday before in church.  I breathed a sigh of relief.

This version sounds a bit “canned” (don’t know the terminology), but it has grown on me after it has played about 20 times in a row.  I prefer the nice piano/violin version from church but I don’t have a sound bite of that one.

I realize as I am writing this that I have been blogging for one year now.  My how time flies.  I cannot believe that I have kept it up.  One of my first posts was about Brian’s dear friend from Amarillo coming to town for the CCEF conference.  It was her first time to meet Lily.  Well, this past week she came for the conference once again and this time there was another little girl to meet.  The crazy part is that Lily only met her once last year, but I when I told her that Robin was coming over she said, “oh yeah we ate at that restaurant with her that had the train.”  Yes, we did – the memory on that girl!

Robin meets Susannah

The family shot Robin took of us - you can tell we are getting tired. What does Susu see?

Well, I never posted after Halloween.  I failed.  I am sure most of my readers saw Lily as Alice on Facebook but here she is again.

This is no disney Alice - this is Lewis Carroll's Alice!

We continued the age old Willetts' tradition of chili dinner and guests on Halloween. One of our guests, Olivia, wants to follow the big girl.

So AFTER I got ahold of Lily’s candy and completely raided it – which she so graciously allowed – she organized her remaining candy.

Well, the blog has been suffering because the life of these savages has been full of sickness.  After hobbling around all day, thinking I had overdone it in ballet and drinking tea to stay warm since I was shivering, I realized. . . I had a fever.  I took ibuprofen and voila!  Unfortunately, I also drank black tea which is while I am still up in the middle of the night.  Tomorrow I will pay.

Two final random tidbits

1.  I had my first parent/teacher conference at Lily’s school.  They said that she excelled in music/singing (of course! this is the girl who sang hymns at 18 months) and visual art.  They showed me her latest collages.  They said when all the other kids where mostly focused on covering their large sheets of paper with scraps until no underneath paper was showing through, Lily was making designs, layering and incorporating leaves.  They also say she is very loving and gentle with the New Moons.  All things that were no surprise.

They did ask her standard questions that PA wants her to know by the end of Kindergarden. She did very well, but I was a little embarrassed at what she did not know.  She did not know what a fireman or a policeman does.  She said a fireman makes fireworks.  It never occurred to me to discuss these simple things with her. Well, now she knows.

2.  My favorite moments with Susu this week happened today.  I was holding, her but talking to Brian and started laughing.  Then she started giggling at me laughing – sooooo sweet.  The other thing was when I was nursing her I looked down at her as I always do and she would smile back as she always does, but whenever I looked up she would pop off, lean back and try to get my eye contact again.  So, I looked down at her again and she settled back in to nursing (while looking up at me).  This happened several times before I realized that she wanted my full attention – happy to oblige!