Happy CNY 2023
The Jungalow yearbook. My new sustainability aim is to only acquire children’s clothes through inheriting, salvage and consignment. I really love these shirts I found second-hand, a black H&M parrot print and an Elizabeth Little Liberty print. I found the green tiger tunic in a Walmart bargain bin and at a Happyology close-out sale. Tried to capture individual pictures of the kids which show how much and fast they are growing.
Pezzy has continued to shoot up and fill out this year. Being in separate classes has been good for the boys, given them an opportunity to make their own friends and be more their own person. Although he looks tall and tough, he’s actually the more sensitive listener, the kid who will still cuddle with you happily and the first to well up with tears. He is a conceptual, auditory and visual learner who has a fondness for mechanics and little awareness of people.
Wes is the perennial joker and classic extrovert, loud, excitable, never happier than when he is surrounded by noise, activity and people. He has been capriciously testing boundaries and is leaning out of his wide-eyed baby beauty. He is the child who will notice and remember details, the rare child who dresses for style and not comfort, and is capable and consistent in a kitchen.
Pips is also losing her chubby cankles and rapidly catching up to Wes in height and shoe size, showing potential to be tall and lanky like her brother. Without her round tummy, she has become far more serious and contemplative, though she remains greedy and comical, with a laugh that is happiest when it’s mischievous and gleeful. She edges out Pezzy as the most competitive, is both the smartest and most obliging of the four, as well as the one with the worst separation anxiety and sleep patterns.
Rowan is in some ways the most predictable, vain and well-adjusted child, and then in other ways the most surprising, independent and stubborn child. She is artistic, aesthetic, has the sweetest smile, has a mind of her own and I suspect of the four, knows her own mind the best.
