more happy hippie pics

since either flickr has decided to hate me or this crappy internet connection and flickr can't work together, i'll try and upload more pics straight to the blog.
hoping that'll work. the quality won't be as high but once thee flickr situation is sorted out i'll add the full size images to our flickr collection.

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btw, if any of you have considered buying a baby carrier but are afraid it's not worth it because you won't get to use it long enough...
joon was exhausted after water fun and wanted me to carry her home. i strapped her in the manduca and was very surprised how comfortable it was. sure, she's heavy. but it was totally possible. i hadn't carried her in over a year and it felt kinda nice having her ride on my back again. she fell asleep and i climbed across the little mountain between our house and the woods with a sleepy toddler on my back. that trip would not have been possible with a stroller.

so. buy that carrier! and once you're really done with it you can resell it for a very good bit of your initial investment.

happy hippie folks

after a couple of days of acclimating to the new situation we are now fully enjoying life so close to the woods in a nice organic quiet neighborhood.

first thing this morning right after breakfast we went on a wood hike again. mika napped in our manduca and the rest of us happily marched towards the big playground and small stream which offers endless playfun and runs through the woods right behind the play area.
joon has gained so much confidence in the past couple of days (and so have we!) so she can now ride on all the "big kid toys" on her own.

soon after we got there though a large group of ten-year-olds arrived in all their pre-puberty glory so we fled the scene and set up camp by the water instead. within minutes joon's pants got wet so we just undressed her and let her play naked. pictures of that are found here but you need to have or create a flickr account AND add "joontoons" as a friend or family. keepin' the crazy internet stalkers away from our kiddos. ;)

i'm also working on uploading lots more pictures to a public set which will be called "forest fun" but somehow the internet is done being my friend for the day. i'll letcha know as soon as everything's up.

so. happy hippie greetings from all of us to all of you! hope you're enjoying summer wherever you are!

building, styling, riding, tarzaning, kidwearing, NIPing, picking

lots of new pictures for the loving grandparents and all others who care to keep up with our currently kinda strange life here. (hoping the upload will work. internet at this house is a bit wonky.)


as you may know we're spending a few weeks at my mom's house. we've been helping my sister move (bleh!), reorganizing two rooms in that old house and spending lots of time outside.
the girls are doing really well, they're extremely happy to be in such a wonderful place with lots of attention from family members. joon is in heaven getting to go outside whenever she feels like it and playing with all the random odds and ends she gets to discover around here. her days are filled with exploring and she's obsessed with watching "poppins" every night before bed and most mornings before starting her busy day.

today we finally took a much needed break from working on the house and went on a long hike in the woods. walking to the woods from here takes about three minutes so we'll be doing lots more hiking in the next weeks. joon loved the big playground and met a two-and-a-half-year old boy named julian who was the perfect size for her to ride the seesaw-carousel with. his dad basically looked like dave's twin, they're also german-english bilingual AND the kid attends the waldkindergarten we're hoping to send our girls to. needless to say we were pretty stoked to meet these guys and silly shy german me did not get their phone number. i regret that now but am guessing we'll run into them again some time soon.

after her nap joon got to pick this year's first tomato. yum. our garden is doing surprisingly well considering we've been really slacking at keeping it in good shape. living here has certainly helped make it easier for us to take care of it though and in another week or so we should be drowning in tomatoes.

so. off to go back outside. i'm hoping all our pictures will upload despite the annoyingly slow internet connection here.

as always though, a little tease...

little things

spent a rainy sunday at my mom's rediscovering favorite toys from my childhood. these teeny bits and pieces saved our day for sure. joon was happy for several hours and mika, my sister and i got to hang out on a mattress covered in blankets while drinking yummy coffee and eating vegan gummybears. random but good. oh, mika of course had neither coffee nor gummybears. she got to enjoy very extended nursing sessions, tickle games and sitting practice instead.



more picture here

oh, please ignore the chaos. we're currently in the process of completely rearranging and renovating three homes in that house and it's all just gonna be a huge mess for a few more days.
please also excuse joon's filthy looking hands and dirty face. she's been helping with gardening and the combination of a constantly running nose plus yummy fresh off the tree cherries just makes for a very sticky toddler face.

two years rewound

hundreds more here (2nd year) and here (1st year).