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new runa words: reli, deli, please, yoga, wheels, round and round, broccoli, moon, hot, bright, mimi (for my dad's mom, mimi and for whitney's dog, yoshimi), ma (for grammaV), yogurt, pen, wall, throw, rock, bee, alligator.....

she talks a lot - sometimes it's hard to get a word in edgewise. music to my ears.

runa has been hangin' con sus amigos this week.

wills came over for a playdate with rooster and whitney.


runa's room got a makeover this past week. she now has a table and chairs that she's learning to use. callum visited koruna the other morning for a little rendezvous.


and she got had some SERIOUS fun with her cousin, aurelia, who is CRAWLING!!! juuuuust starting to.... we love you, reli!


runa and reli have already got a deep fascination for the phone. these days when runa talks on the phone, she always says she's talking to bean.

runa loves her babies. she hangs out with ruby and cora (the 2 lovelies in this video) and rosa all the time. ian has learned to use the babies to wooooooooo koruna.


runa practicing her dancing skills with whitney last week.


runa learned a few new moves this week. maybe it was the music that inspired her. maybe it was the boots.

man oh man, we have got some catching up to do.

on one of our last few days in santa fe, we drove up to the ski basin for a hike. runa loved it.

we got to see our friends keira, mark, ruby, and cora. we've loved ruby and cora since their first days on the planet, but this was koruna's first visit. they gave her two of their dolls, who we've named ruby and cora, of course.

on our way home, we visited odessa and runabird got to see her cousin, jalie. they are only a few days apart. oh, the fun.

wheeeeeeeee..... grumps showed her that slides are fuu-uun.

once we hit austin, rooster got a visit from honey. she loves the wide open spaces of reli's house. honey walked countless steps with her.

whitney teaches koruna new things every day. now she knows what a smile is.

every day is a blast. every day.

from our last few days in santa fe.... we're getting settled back in to austin now so stay tuned for more, folks.

where's koruna?


we hiked up turtle hill with ivy.


starting to walk.


we hit odessa on the way home from santa fe and runa showed off her new walking skills for grumps and grandma becky.

2. that's runa's magic number. we hold up one sock and say one, rooster says twooooooo. we go shopping for groceries and there's no way we can get one avocado. we have to get twoooooo. she doesn't wanna play with one ball. she wants to play with twooooo. twoooo eyes. twoooo ears. twoooo dogs.

here are some pics of runa with her dos amigas.

a coupla morning videos for ya. they're dark because they're in the wee hours.

runa misses her wawa.

yes, we are alive, folks. alive and kickin'. we got to stay with nancy and danny in abilene on our way to santa fe. sandy, luke, and debby stopped by and filled my heart to almost overflowin'.
we were tired when we arrived in santa fe. runabird's new favorite rest spot is blue's bed.


we took some pics while we lounged in the shade at the park the other afternoon. lazy. lovely.



koruna digs her horsie, her sock, her iiiiiiiivy.

our time in the land of enchantment is flying by. ian and i spend most of the days and lots of nights working down at our studios so runa gets a whole lotta grammaV and ivy time. she's in the lap of luxury - queen of the castle and she knows it. rooster digs the dogs and can hardly take her eyes off of richard when he's in the room.

runabird loves to pick raspberries in the front yard. she smushed the first few between her fingers but now holds them ever so delicately as she plucks them from the vine.




the berries are almost gone now. the roses are fading, too. we picked a perfect time to be here.

runa got a mr. potato head for her birthday. she digs the glasses. i wish i had a picture of whitney when she was young. she used to like to sport the mr. potato head glasses, too. like nanny, like runa, i guess....

and rooster has a crush on bodhi, but she's only lately been so bold as to kiss him.

we went to the zoo on runa's birthday. she was fascinated.

love that others know the words she knows. thanks, y'all.
i also forgot about:
'there'
'sssssss' for snake
'cheese' (theese) which might be topping avocado as king of foods. runa takes cheese seriously. if we make the mistake of leaving the cheese-grater-tower out where she can see it, she goes mad for it. she thinks that device is the origin of cheese. it's unfortunate when the tower is clean and drying on the rack and there isn't a single scrap of cheese left in the house - hard to convince the runabird that the magical cheese tower can't just birth her some more theese.

today was runa's last day with whit before we leave for new mexico (boohoo - she'll miss you, whit). reli (is she even gonna be recognizable when we get back?) and shazaam came for a visit. sigh, what a day.

runa's big list of know's:
she can pretty much point out any animal you mention, but she makes the sounds for monkey, horse, cow, sheep, dog, kittycat, lion, dinosaur, and chicken. she also makes a 'vroom vroooom' sound when she plays with cars, and when she gets on her horsie, she makes a 'bada bada' sound to let us know she expects to hear us sing her our rendition of 'the william tell overture'.

she understands a great deal of what we are saying to her. maybe it's our inflection, but she knows when we say we are going to the car or to reli's house or to the park. she knows when we're talking about the kids next door or that we're going to swing outside. she knows grandparents and friends when she sees them in pictures or when they walk into a room. she's aware of whatever is going on around her and able to reflect her awareness.

runa can say: dada, mama, whitney (wawa), yeah, no ('nnyoo'), hello ('oodyoo'), bye bye, moon, ball, balloon, water (wa), more, up, down, banana (nana), avocado (ado) - her favorite food by far, pasta and bathtub (both are 'pata'), bath, bird, cheese, bread, please, home, push, and adios.

she signs for: more, water, leche (nurse), and thank you

she is currently obsessed with books, the phone, balloons, her toys that make music/noise (she dances a jig), a big cardboard box that she can crawl in and out of (our new permanent fixture in the living room), swimming, and her potty. i probably should've mentioned her potty first because the girl digs it. she likes to take it apart and stand in it. she likes to climb in and out of it. she likes to sit on the edge of it. we're just glad she's getting familiar with it.

we are oh so lucky to have one of ian's portraits hanging in our living room right now. "of ash or lead" is with us for a short time and koruna loves it. she likes to point to the drawing and say 'dada'. if ian is in the room, she'll then turn to him and say 'dada' again, looking back and forth. i love that.

we leave for santa fe next week - we'll be there a month. we're all excited about it, but i know rooster will miss her whitney, her reli, her shazaam, her yano. how fortunate she is to love so many.

koruna is one.
three hundred sixty five days?
ten million more please.

How do you quantify pure love? It took us a few days to remember that we were supposed to choose a "winner" from this mountain of adoration. It finally made itself clear and was written on the watercolor and delivered into the adoring hands of one Jerry Heald. Had we been thinking we would have filmed the delivery of this prize and I think the excitement in his eyes would clearly mirror the excitement we have captured a few times on the face of his granddaughter. Congrats, Grumps, and thanks again to everyone who fed the creative bon fire of hiakus that warmed our return from Mexico. love

Can Portrait Capture?
Or Any Adornment Enhance
True Beuaty? Her Face.