Tending the Vegetable Patch: It's all about you (Plum)

Today's post will be (mostly) entirely about Plum. Plum, aka Anna Grace, is two today. You can read her birth story here. Me and the three smalls took advantage of the blue skies today and went down to Worthing with a plan to play in the play area on the seafront and scoot along the promenade. We arrived just before lunch time and chose to scoot/walk to the cafe and eat first. We got slightly distracted by the fair ground rides and had several turns on the trampolines and squirty water affairs. Plum rode on a bus ride and a Bob the builder ride. By the time we had done this and walked back to the car it was late and growing grim and cold again. Pumpkin had ridden in the buggy on the return journey with Plum pushing him the whole way. We collected several shells and different types of seaweed for us to investigate further when we got home.

By the time we made it home both Plum and Pumpkin were asleep and continued to do so when i had transferred them indoors. Bean and I spent a happy and content hour and a half making birthday cards for Plum, wrapping her presents, preparing birthday tea, building together in minecraft and drinking tea. SGS and SGG made a surprise visit with a gift for Plum and daddy came home from work early so we could enjoy birthday tea together. The party blowers were a big hit!

Plum is expressing her character evermore-so, as it should be. She has definite preferences when it comes to dressing and what she wants to wear, she doesn't have a favourite colour as such but prefers things which are bright. She drinks breast milk at least four times a day and is not generally big on eating but will try most things going. She is petit but robust, measuring two inches shorter than Bean at the same age and four inches shorter than Pumpkin. She loves playing with her dollies (hence the abundance of dolly gifts for Christmas) and enjoys the boy's doll house (hence the Sylvanian gifts for her birthday.) She can't help but move and dance when she hears music and sings to us all day. Plum likes drawing and squiggling and sensory play, she loves the swings and the slide at the park and running around with the older children. She likes to try things on her own and we have to let her have a go at things first before she will allow us to do it for her (those things which we know she won't be able to do.) She sleeps next to mummy and every morning mummy gets a kiss and then Plum takes off the duvet and fetches me my slippers and takes me to the bathroom where she gives me my toothbrush. She loves watching Everything's Rosie, Raa Raa, Peter Rabbit and Sarah and Duck and she asks us to read every board book going in the house!