Get well soon

Asha isn't feeling well today : (
Prescription: 1 dog, 1 cat & lots of snuggles......

her favorite canvas

Asha has always created stunning art on herself. Her objective today was to "scare the pants off Cyrus and Maya". She was going for "spooky" and "haunting". I think she achieved just that! We are going to have to figure out where to put a large mirror in the new house that she can sit in front of on the floor with her "paints" as she does now.

My Baby is 6!

I started putting together a slide show of photos of Asha since the day of her birth and even with 0 photos of her between the day she was born and about 18 months due to our camera breaking it is amazing to see how much ground she has covered in her short life so far! And yet it seems to have passed in the blink of an eye!

Happy Birthday dear Asha - you bring joy and laughter and light and love in abundance into our world every day and I'm so glad you decided that you were ready to join our family even though we didn't think we were ready yet. I love you, birthday girl! You are such a blessing in my life!

A cozy spot

Thursday night while we watched the Olympics Asha disappeared and this is where we found her... fast asleep:



One of the things I like about this photo is the variety of the things on top of the coffee table.

Micro focus

While the rest of us climbed the rocks, playing hopping and balancing games, watching surfers and body boarders and marveling at the massive, sweeping cliffs that wrap the bay, Asha's focus was on a smaller scale. She notices the little things. She gets wrapped up in intricate small wonders. She creates and manipulates on a tiny scale. It is no wonder to me that she also tunes into people and animals with this same attention to details and nuance. She catches the "little" things that have a big impact. She detects small changes in mood and body language. She gauges emotional landscapes and instinctively knows where to find her footing and how to reach out and offer a steadying hand. She navigates the micro scale of situations with ease both in the physical and the emotional realm.

Asha & Bamboo

Life IS Good!

AAAAHHH...life is good....