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5 April 2018
Nothing quite like the smell of spring and new buds on the tree to put a smile on our faces.
I'm so glad to see the back of winter now and all the illness it brought us (although the snow was very pleasing!).
To mark the start of spring we organised a little egg hunt in the garden, and a candle lit supper.
Little P picked some primroses from the garden and we set the table with all things spring like.
It was a last minute happening due to some work deadlines and ill health, we had to cancel Mr Leafy's 2nd birthday party sadly : (
But I had a sudden bout of energy and cooked a supper of mushroom, leek and stilton pies, potatoes with asparagus, garlic and feta. And salad.
It's becoming a bit of a thing to have a candle lit dinner to celebrate the seasons. The kids love it and really get in the festive mood. We had easter crackers and some small presents after dinner too!
I think they love drinking out of wine glasses.
I know I have such solid memories of big late night dinners when I was a kid so I hope they have similar memories when they are older too : )
P.s I have saved some little videos of this day over on my instagram if you're interested.
Mr Leafy is ONE!
6 April 2017
We had a lovely first birthday celebration for our little Mr Leafy recently, just with family...
The first birthday is I think, the most important birthday of your life, your first ever year out in the world, and the year that you will develop and learn the most in your life.It is also the first ever day that is just for you! Yep, it's a pretty special day I think. So I tried my best to make it as nice as I could, with cake and decorations and all that.
Because it is nearly Easter, which we associate with the ancient celebration of spring, I thought I'd bring a bit of spring into our house. In fact on his birthday, the weather was more like summer!
I found these little eggs in a shop in town, so hidden underneath them is some tiny chocolate eggs!
I cut some branches from our fruit trees (which are undergoing a pruning this year anyways) and they blossomed just in time!
I made a vanilla cake again, which has lots of yogurt and cream cheese involved...I found these animals to put on top which are also toys too, win win!
And I had some of the snaps on my iPhone made in a book, because it's nice to have them to look at easily.
I made some salads and a Leafy pie!
It was so warm that we opened up the doors to the garden. It really was a beautiful sunniest day ever!
He had so many lovely presents, and some beautiful toys all the way from Granny and Granddad in Japan too!
We had the cake outside...
I made a strawberry salad to go with the cake. He looooved it (his first proper cake experience 😂).
My mister made him this amazing little van out of solid silver sheet, which he had engraved with his name...
and the packaging! 😍
I cannot fathom that I now have a four year old and a one year old. I will never come to terms with the surreal nature of having children, and that they came from me...it is beyond science fiction, almost dream-like.
In everyday life we generally take it for granted, but for a few moments each day, I think how magical and otherworldly it is, to have these two little people in our house. My brain starts to heat up just thinking about it, and then I have to go and change a nappy or wipe snot from a nose.
Super P
23 March 2016
Amazingly, I managed to roll off the sofa and make this cape for the littlun. She has been badgering me about it for a while now, I did intend to make one for her birthday last October, but alas, morning sickness struck me down. 'but Mum, I NEED a super hero cape!!!'
I made it whilst she was out with my mister, it was a tad stressful to be honest because she is getting a bit fussy.
but, hooray! she loves it! She has been running around everywhere, saving slugs etc...
I don't have much in the way of plain fabric in my shed, only this cotton, which is a sort of chartreuse (?) colour, and I added some white cotton in between. It's always good to have some gold sequin fabric and colour felt handy I have discovered ; )
I lined the inside with some white cotton jersey fabric, and I added some little straps with poppers to avoid that strangling feeling you get from capes that tie at the neck. The ribbon is more for decoration.
The poppers are so that I can easily alter the size of the straps at a later date (depending how many years of her life she wants to be a super hero)
Besides that, we have also getting in the spring mood, by painting these wooden eggs in the garden and having picnics and consuming the cakes that we have been making.
So I hope to have baby news with in the next couple of weeks (sigh...) until then I'll just roll around, moaning and trying to entertain a three year old! ; )
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