Bits + Pieces
Playing in the mud kitchen // Olaf exploring the garden // Strawberries
Loom band making // Paddling in the river // Major sorting out! // Face-painted cuties
A few snapshots of life around here lately. We haven’t done anything special, just pottering around as usual. Last week when the weather was good, the little two spent most days down the garden playing in the mud kitchen. Which meant they probably had more baths last week then they have the rest of the year ha! We’re starting to reap the rewards from our veggie patch… I just wish it was bigger and I’d had more energy this year to plant more! Still we have strawberries, salad, courgettes already..
We’ve spent a few evenings enjoying the sun in the garden, though we seem to have gone back to rain this week. Boo – please someone bring back my sunshine. Papa went off to a festival this pack weekend with the boys, so it was just the kiddos and I for a few days. We went to a history fair at the museum on Saturday morning – where Kiki and Baya had their faces painted. Sunday we took the Rainbows out for the day and got very {very very} wet!
I don’t have much planned this week… Papa is home for a few days before he heads of to another festival this weekend – this time to work. I’m hoping to get the baby’s space painted – figured I should do it now while I can still get up a ladder {and I’m impatient to be ready!}. I was hoping the weather will pick up so we can go to the pick-your-own farm one day – though it’s looking unlikely at the minute.
I’m trying to spread out what we do each day as I’m waking up early, and not sleeping great anyway so I’m feeling pretty exhausted. Seems my body is trying to prepare me for life with a newborn – but I’d much rather take the sleep while I can thank you very much!
What do you have planned this week?
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Sonya Cisco
July 8, 2014 at 14:18My bedroom looks like that most of the time, I am good at sorting out to the point where it looks worse than before I started, then lose interest…. I remember the sleeplessness of late pregnancy well, and willing myself to sleep better, but failing!
Kate Thompson
July 8, 2014 at 14:19Gorgeous photos – love the one of your elder daughter at the table with the kitten on her lap, it reminded me of my daughter :)
Jen aka The Mad House
July 8, 2014 at 18:44Oh I love a good mud kitchen, almost as I love lazy evenings in the garden. I want the sun back too.
Lori
July 8, 2014 at 19:25I really need to do another good sort out and finally get round to hanging the pictures that have been lying on the floor. I hope you manage to get your painting done and get some rest x
Julie
July 8, 2014 at 19:32Your bedroom looks tidier than mine! ha! I will be working all week.. :( x
You Baby Me Mummy
July 8, 2014 at 19:34Such fabulous pictures. I especially love the paddling one. I hope you can get some rest x
Jess @ Along Came Cherry
July 8, 2014 at 19:41Wow that mud kitchen looks ermm muddy!! ;) The painted faces are amazing! x
Kate Williams
July 8, 2014 at 19:47Oh I want to go paddling in a river! I’ve just promised to do cake baking with my toddler tomorrow so that’s my main plan :)
Jenny
July 8, 2014 at 20:26I love your mud kitchen. I really want one in our garden but it’s all modern with no place for mud. Any tips?
Vicky (@aroundandupsidedown)
July 8, 2014 at 21:04Now being able to sleep in pregnancy can be so frustrating – especially in the late stage when you know you have many sleepless nights yet to come. I hope you do get some rest – it is very difficult for many people in this heat I think x
Lori
July 8, 2014 at 21:27I hope you get some rest amongst all the organising and painting! I really need to do a good sort out too! x
Pinkoddy
July 9, 2014 at 01:34Looks like a lot of fantastic outdoor fun – I want to create a mud kitchen area now too.
laura redburn
July 9, 2014 at 10:06mm, those strawberries! hope you can get things done this week as well as get some rest :)
lisa prince
July 9, 2014 at 10:55what a fab post love seeing kids getting essy in the garden and hands on x
Laura
July 9, 2014 at 12:10Oh how cute are the face paint designs! Wow that is a big sort out – I really need to do that too just can’t be bothered at the moment. Those strawberries also look very yummy :)
Laura x
VaiChin @ Rambling Through Parenthood
July 9, 2014 at 16:10I am liking your home-grown strawberries. Ours decided not to grow this year:-(
Globalmouse
July 9, 2014 at 16:28That is amazing face painting!! The strawberries look great, we neglected ours and so they haven’t amounted to much!
KARA
July 9, 2014 at 16:32Those face paints are amazing!
Fritha
July 9, 2014 at 20:26oh how cute do they look with their faces painted!!xx
Helen @ Witty Hoots
July 9, 2014 at 23:38Mudpies are fabulous and your kitten is just lovely – I think black and white cats are the BEST :)
Zena's Suitcase
July 10, 2014 at 10:23I bet you could sell that bed for a fortune!
Shell Louise
July 10, 2014 at 23:58I’ve been sorting Kaycee and Ella’s bedroom out today. It took me four hours! I removed 4 carrier bags of rubbish, 3 carrier bags of recycling rubbish and a huge basket of washing. I thought I was doing really well keeping up with the laundry all week but it turns out they’ve just not been putting their clothes to the wash!
wendy
July 13, 2014 at 20:53I love the colour of your nail varnish. It is amazing what our bodies tell us to do isn’t it xx