Painting, naps, and warm baby's

Baby Jude's new Noggin Cozie from Nurtured by Nature.

Warmth is of vital importance for all young children, especially the younger ones. Children do not develop an accurate ability to interpret and understand their own body temperatures and needs until after their 8th birthdays. One constantly sees young children and babies with little limbs poking out, sometimes bare feet, no hats on, in strollers or hard plastic car seats or in slings – and yet look at the parent! S/he has a jacket on and perhaps a hat too – and is moving about. All babies under a year should wear a hat at all times. Silk-cotton is best and this can protect baby from heat as well as from cold and just adds another layer of protection to his delicate and vulnerable head, where so many sense impressions are centered.

Rachael following in her mama's foot steps, co-sleeping with her babies.

These are the older three kids oil paintings. They have been working on a few times a week. Austin's is of our dog Cash. Natalie's is her first oil painting of flowers in a vase.

And I had asked Zach to paint me one in blues he called it "a snowy night"