Many Birthday Celebrations...many wishes to make...

Thank you Nama Jane for making birthday treat #1 with me. I love you. Thank you Kylie for helping me celebrate.

Love,

Sekani

Alamo Square Park Party and Donut Pyramid!!!

Birthday at School

At Sekani's preschool, the teachers facilitate a beautiful birthday ceremony. It begins with a story from the parent/s about the birthday child as a baby. We shared the story of Sekani learning sign language. He then walked around the circle, holding a candle, stopping in front of each classmate as they said a wish.

I hope your birthday lasts forever.

I'm glad you were born.

I love you. Happy Birthday.

The circle concluded with a jump over a red rope; one side is 4 and the other side is 5.

Grandma Rosie with her Great Grandchildren

Sekani was intrigued by Great Grandma's fur. He says, "Grandma, you look like a cat."

I help him out a bit by saying, "Do you mean Grandma looks pretty in her coat that looks like a cat?"

"Yeah. It's soft like a cat."

Ring Bearer, er, Pillow Holder

Sekani and Cousin Essau carry the pillow down the aisle for Marc and Lexie's wedding at St. Augustine's in Washington, DC.

LEGOLAND

Good times!

Valentines Day in LA

Winter swim! Sekani and buddy, Zion, get the sunscreen spray down before spending the day in the water. Much love Watts.

San Luis Obispo

After playing in the river, Sekani treks up the hill and starts running, away from us. I yell to him to stop running which he usually does, but he kept running, barefoot. When I finally catch up to him (perturbed and winded), I ask, "Why didn't you stop?" He replies, "Because this place makes me want to run."

HELPING HAITI

How do 4 and 5 year olds wrap their minds around events like the earthquake in Haiti? In Sekani's class, the conversation began like this:

On Monday, after hearing a story about a Hippo that was stranded on a sandbar by a tsunami, the children asked, “What’s a tsunami?” I wasn’t able to finish my sentence, “A tsunami is when there is a big earthquake in the bottom of the…” when the class became very excited, “There was a big earthquake in Haiti!” they exclaimed. Yesterday, Chiara brought in a letter and some coins from her piggy bank to send to Haiti. Today we reflected on the things children can do to help the people of Haiti and why they need help.

Anaiya said, “They don’t have clothes, we could make clothes.

Max said, “Their food got smashed.”

Ethan said, “I want them to feel better.”

David said, “A ginormous jet could get stuff to them.”

Wynant said, “We are a very rich country, and it’s very likely that they have earthquakes.” Haiti is a very poor country and their houses aren’t as strong as ours.”

Johnnie Lee said, “They need some food and drink to make them healthy.”

Aydin said, “The soldiers are there to help the people.

Max said, My dad could help make wood houses.”

Griffin said, “You could give away your baby toys.”

Isiah said, “We could drop boxes from a plane and the toys could come out.”

Izzie said, “We could sell some food because they don’t have it.”

We all decided to have a bake sale to raise money for Haiti.