Saturday dawned much sunnier and slightly warmer than friday. Friday Alex and I had gone out and put some treats in the crook of a cluster of trees for the faeries. We had read a story that suggested they liked milk so they had a small bowl of milk, two animal cookies and a piece of cheese. He was chomping at the bit right away in the morning to go see if they had eaten them. I was really hoping some squirrels had carried them off to keep the magic going. No such luck, but it had been very windy so a noticable amount of milk had evaporated and that was enough for him. It was so much fun to hear the different stories and ideas he was coming up with about the faeries and what they might look like and where their houses were.
Ben had a couple projects he wanted to start so he stayed home and I took the kids over to Beulah for the Waldorf May Day celebration.
Alex was very excited to dance around a real maypole. We had made him some wrist bands with bells sewn on them modeled after some he had seen in a book. We picked what flowers we could find in our yard and brought them along to make a flower crown for Maya.
There was a terribly cold wind blowing into the park in Beulah off the water so I was glad we still had hats and mittens in the car! It was fun to see the Maypole and mingle with the other families. The dancing itself turned out to be a bit complicated for my kids. We made a very pretty crown for Maya. The willow bows and a few of the bigger flowers came from the pile that everyone brought to share but the grape hyacinths and trout lilys are from our own yard.
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