Eden, the marker years

Eden and her markers are fast friends.  There have been a WHOLE LOT of pictures of cats from the internet that have been colored in.  Rainbow cats, gray cats, cats with spots added, cats with stripes and extra hats and tongues licking up food, and anything else you can draw on a cat.  Eden is branching out into more drawing now at 3.5.  She was pleased as punch to show this one off today.

"That is me, Eden.  And I am on the beach.  And that is a crab I am holding.  And there is another crab on a sandcastle."  I think there are a couple of trees, and a sun and a sky there too :)  She was SOOOO proud.  The neck was a new addition after asking, "Mommy, what comes next after a belly?"  She always draws from the shoes up.

Yesterday we spent the afternoon and evening at the beach and found handfuls of hermit crabs.  Great fun!  If you have never been to the beach on a hot day in September in New England you are missing out.  Absolutely perfect, and the water is finally warm.  It was bliss!

Tomorrow is Eden's 2nd day of preschool and she is staying for lunch.  She is going to the same preschool that Asher attended.  Asher was giving her a hug goodnight after day 1 and I overheard their conversation from the hallway.  Asher said, "Eden, you are SUPER lucky.  You don't even know how lucky you are!  Mom only let me stay for lunch one or two times and it is so much fun and you get to do it every time.  You are gonna LOVE it.  That is super, super lucky!"  Asher has been detailing all the fun she is going to have, and let me tell you this smoothed the transition of my reluctant separator by an enormous amount.  Siblings are just fantastic.  Eden is indeed one lucky little girl with two very loving (to her, anyway!) big brothers who regularly roll out the red carpet for her.