How to be an explorer of the world:

1. Always be LOOKING

(Notice the ground beneath your feet)

2. Consider everything alive & animate

3. EVERYTHING is interesting.

Look closer.

4. Alter your course often.

5. OBSERVE for long durations

(And short ones)

6. Notice the stories going on around you.

-Keri Smith

P.S. We let her Butterflies go.

She likes to talk about what they are doing.

Flying in the sunshine.

Playing with other butterfly friends in the neighbor's yard... ect.

Ella is my little budding artist.

She colors on walls, tables. You name it.

We try to keep things up and out of reach.

She has discovered paint. It's all she wants now.

This is her official painting attire.

She's ruined too many clothes.

I love the way she sits.

With her little feet tucked.

She threw a tantrum right after I took these.

She wanted my paints and I told her no.

It ended with her screaming in her room.