R-L Family by Mina, age 6

Do you think that Mina has picked up on the discussion of my long legs/short torso while bike shopping lately?

November Leaves

Day of the Dead

I love this holiday. It is full of beauty and meaning. So we’ve adopted it into our family’s traditions. This year we took in the celebrations at the Seattle Center. The dancing and music was the kiddo’s favourite part. I got a cool shirt with a bunch of skeletons riding a bicycle. :)

  

incredible sand art by a local artist

bread of the dead. next year i want to try to make some. i’ll also be sure to buy a chocolate skull when we first get there!

some of the dancing.

mina decorating her sugar skeleton. they had skeletons to decorate, paper marigolds, paper dancing skeletons…

We came home and made our own altar honoring our own family members. Mina quickly had the idea to include a picture and food for her Daisy, the sweet baby chick that we lost in the spring. 

M&M experiment by M&M

This was cool. Candy experiments!

M&M experiment. see the detached, yet in-tact M floating around the artificial goopy soup!