Blog post from Carrisa
Diego is now fifteen months old, and life is changing quickly. He plays now. I mean, he REALLY plays! He demands time outside when we get home each afternoon, and he and I spend about 30 minutes to an hour finding things to do in the backyard. I have always felt dismayed about our backyard. Grass refuses to grow for longer than one season, and the overgrown trees drop a layer of leaves that quickly becomes unmanageable if I miss a day of raking. But now, suddenly, I am finding myself keeping up with the raking, because my little boy drags me out to “play” (do yard work) every day. As I pull weeds, he pulls grass and leaves; as I rake, he pushes an old broken rake around; as I examine the growing grass and plants, he climbs up on anything and everything. He is learning to throw rocks. I…
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