Clowning around

We spent the afternoon at the local play area. Bean turned it into a big top and Grandma was the ringmaster. He rode the white horse and performed tricks: riding backwards, riding standing on the saddle and riding facing the horse...until he fell off and the horse hit him in the face! The swings became the trapeze, the crows nest was the tight rope, the slide became the arena for his acrobatics and the trim trail used for his clowning around sequence, I can't remember what the round-a-bout was for but it was in the routine somewhere. He repeated his circuit several times. 

Pumpkin spent most of the time sitting in the buggy having fallen over and grazed his hand on the way there. It was the wrong time of day for a swift recovery of such an injury. He did eventually emerge but only after Pops had pushed him energetically several times around the play area pretending to fly him to one country or another.  I couldn't even tempt him on to the swings!

Pops hadn't quite realised the Plum was in the buggy too and the high speed turns, bumps and bangs woke her up so I fed her in the park which was interesting as there were no seats at all.
The day was topped and tailed by fuzzy felt pictures, dominoes, drawing, cutting and reading books. 

Babble, books and baking

Today's biggest pleasure has been listening to Plum babble all day. At some points it almost sounds like she is imitating her daddy when he says her name. She gets the intonation perfectly. She literally hasn't stopped. The boys continue to love their little sister and I continue to love watching them with her. They often sing her songs and hold her hand or lie down next to her. Pumpkin is often a little over bearing towards her and seems to be constantly in her face or kissing her or full body hugging her. It has been a challenge for us to encourage him in his affections towards her whilst also protecting her from being squashed! Today's development has been Pumpkin's idea to read to her. 

We love reading. It is one of my favourite things that I wish I had more time to indulge in! We have books or reading material everywhere and one of the boys favourite outings is to the library. Bean has recently become fascinated with Australia (I don't know why or remember where the interest was stimulated from) and this morning I came downstairs to daddy and Bean looking at pictures in a back issue of the National Geographic in which Bean was total enthralled. 

cheese scones

honey cookies

After a week of eating chocolate eggs and a party bag full of sweets from yesterday I got busy in the kitchen in the hope that the phrase, 'Mummy, I'm hungry,' can be met with some home baked goods this week. Pumpkin still insists he's hungry pretty much all the time and he pretty much eats all the time too. I don't know where he puts it all! "Hollow legs," that's what his daddy would say.

And whilst we're on food, Plum has taken to feasting on one side only and then wanting her pudding up to an hour later! I don't remember the boys doing that. She really does have her own rhythm and it goes to show from the outset that our children are all different. Just for the record, after the normal (for me) rickety start, I am loving the breast feeding once again. This time especially, I feel it gives me and Plum dedicated time together and I wouldn't have it any other way...even when I fall asleep on the job in the middle of the night (as I did last night) and forget to even offer the pudding, much to Plum's disgust who proceeded to make it clear that she wanted it! :)