Strange Machines

Upcycled this old tee my son grew out of into a cute playmat!

I finally found an ecofriendly safe paint for the kids! By chance I met the owner of Mulberry Paints at Isetan where she was selling her products and we had a good chat. Her paints are plant-based and tested extensively for safety.

We broke out the kits today. The kids loved it!

Kitten is now busy with cooking and marketing. She carries her basket and picks up items and pops them inside. She also loves to play with the pots and pans I bought Wolf before and I’ve seen her standing with a pan pretending to cook.

So what’s a Momma gonna do? Make her a playset of course.

I cut the pieces out but did not sew them together. Just put the pan on the black felt and cook!

Made an egg sunny side up for them to cook. More on the way!

Wolf had been rather enamoured by Tiny Kitty, the super cute tiny Tiddlywinks kitten who came into our lives just a week or two ago.

She is sweet and pink and just 6″ tall, with the sweetest face and a lovely smile. She is girliness epitomized in a cute stuffed kitty. (Wolf always chases the girl at the playground dressed in pink!)

Wolf speaks to her in the sweetest voice. He puts her pink blankie over her. He puts her pillow under her little head. His best friend Baby Liopleurodon is her best friend. Last night, I even overheard him tell Mama Kitty, “Your daughter is so pretty!”

Anyway, his best gift to Tiny Kitty was to reunite her with her Daddy, William, who had been with us for a while now.

As the story goes, William lost his baby mama Mama Kitty and Tiny as travelled together from the United States. Somehow the mother and daughter found their way home. Could there be a lost brother too? The plot thickens.

Here is a recent pic of the happy family:

These beautiful Tiddlywinks kitties arrived in the mail today.

My very first playset with a bag, blankie and pillow, 2 skirts and a pair of pants, and a beautiful kitty momma to keep her company on her journey from the US. What a lovely surprise! I love love love these two!

Just made this larger more huggable liopleurodon for Wolf. He loves it!

We got a 3D dinosaur book on sale from Borders today and took pics of Wolf’s Safari Ltd Baby T-Rex, Kronosaurus, and Chimera (lead-free and pthalate-free), and Lego Indiana Jones figurines (free of toxic chemicals) meant to represent himself and Kitten in the various dinosaur scenes. Can you spot the toys?

Wolf’s Smithsonian T-Rex finds notoriety scaling our bookshelf and then the stereo.

Note the scale.

But of course she does. She has been comprehending me since she was probably around 4 months old but now at 1 year old she is starting to respond to what I say and ask her.

She’s started waving bye voluntarily when the occasion calls for it.

She can pass me things when asked.

She overhears me telling so and so she can do it and she does.

E.g. Today my Mom told me to watch her as she was climbing up a chair. I told Mom not to worry as she can do it. She never turned to look at us but she paused a second when I said it as if she’d heard. She climbed up, turned herself around, sat down and then clapped and laughed gleefully.

She has also started to imitate words. She doesn’t reproduce them exactly but sometimes they are very close, like the duck I showed her today. She said duck very clearly.

Other times her favourite words are article (probably ah tickle) and book.

She has begun to walk.

Fun days!