Picture Post: Noisy, Amazing, and Disgusting

Firstly, I should apologise for the photo quality lately. We were having a problem with our camera, so everything has been on the iPhone lately. It's fixed now though. 

Secondly, how fast do these new skills crop up?? F is speaking in SENTENCES. Not just 'I did it', but stuff like, 'Mommy no wash her hair'. She says 'bless you', and 'scuse me', and when I ask if she wants her vitamins, she says 'yes please!' - I can't handle how cute it is. Basically an angel child (until bedtime). She's got a decent handle on plural (although two apparently qualifies as 'lots of', so just now at breakfast, 'LOTS OF spoons!!!'), and getting to grips with a few adjectives, favourites being noisy ('noisy bird!', 'noisy dog!', 'noisy baby!' - just you wait, kid.), amazing (her dad pointed out some 'amazing clouds' once, and she's been trying it out for other things. Not sure that car was amazing, but ok), and disgusting. When I make roast potatoes, for some reason, she eats them while chirping away, 'mmm, DISGUSTING!!' And laughing at her hilarious joke. Crazy kid.

How about some pictures? 

Looking cool.

 

 

Telling me she looks cool.

 

 

Somebody likes Mommy's pregnancy pillow.

 

 

Stuck indoors on a beautiful day, waiting for my new passport to arrive from the Embassy. So, art day. Just an aside, I've acheived a life-goal - when it came time to renew my passport, it was FULL of stamps. Not an empty page to be found. Teenage me would be flabbergasted.

 

 

Baby selfie.

 

There's a big sand pit and cafe in Blackheath, and we're there pretty much every day. They put buckets of water out sometimes, and my kid is always the only one actually GETTING IN. So we leave a wet sandy mess wherever we go, but you know, summertime.

That's all from us today. Have a good weekend!

Daisy Chains

 

Today we all hung out in a meadow and made daisy chains like we were in a Marc Jacobs ad or something. It was lovely. We had a picnic (chickpea salad sandwiches, hummus and carrot wraps, lemon water), and tried not to sit on the rabbit poo. A few pictures:

 

So many daisies!

 

 

Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend, and getting out in the sunshine when you can find it. It's happening, guys; summer is happening.

May Day! May Day!

 

If you are lucky enough to live in the UK, you'll have just enjoyed another 3 day weekend for no reason. May day? Is that the holiday? Who cares! 3 day weekend! We decided to spend it visiting family, splashing in puddles, eating Indian food, and generally enjoying ourselves.

More swing actions shots. I love dressing her in bright colours.

 

Hey, that's me! With my mom uniform and bright stroller, pretty much as always.

 

Loving the puddles.

 

And still loving the boots. This is Yellow Boots version 2.0, because I lost one (DISASTER!!) in Eltham last weekend. We can't be wellie-less for the summer though, no way. If you don't know why, then clearly you didn't get that 3 day weekend. 

So we've been busy, and this week is set to be just as busy, but in a good way!

Scenes From Our Table

Her new favourite book, I think I've read it 15 times since yesterday.

 

Taco night! And salad, obvs. 

 

Little hands.

 

Sometimes I think I'm just an old-school, sprouts kind of girl.

 

We have a little alcove above the table where we store jugs and serving plates...

... and cookbooks and table linens. I like it.

 

 

Another new friend.

 

Why are the chipped mugs always the best? Got it in Provence and can't bear to part with it.

Oranges, my mother's ring.

 

A fairly typical weekday lunch - a little bit healthy, a little bit not. Salad and Violife quesedillas.

 

Trying to get organized, and little hands shoot in there, like, instantly!

 

Who, me?

 

Little hands.

 

Yeah, I'm a sprouts kind of girl.

 

Hope you are all enjoying the long weekend, and hopefully some spring weather. Don't forget to give the link below a click if you want to vote for us!

 

Rashes and Dirt

I haven't been taking as many family photographs lately, and part of the reason is that F has a bit of a rash on her face. Also, our living room is in a state of flux, with cardboard boxes and mess. But today, I say, to hell with it - she's still cute, rashes and all, and our home may be messy but that's only because it's lived in.

Been busy around here, with the garden underway, sourdough fermenting (*right now*), and various home projects on the go, all within the framework of our normal routine. I feel like I haven't had time to write, or even think with all this DOING we're doing. It's great, and it's what I want our home life to be like, but there's a lot of firefighting as my projects and her activities all sort of merge into one - don't eat raw dough, don't put dirt down your top, please, just let me hang the washing up! I don't mind cleaning up dirt and flour, in fact I'm quite proud of how much she enjoys 'helping', but it's busy. Communication-wise, she's still going like gangbusters - it's a brave new world when you can ask them what happened and they can say 'knee', or whatever.

 

So that's what we're up to! 

 

3 Days Without Internet

That's all it took, 3 days without internet and I was desperate. I couldn't upload any photos! I couldn't do my course work! I couldn't Instagram!! Slightly ashamed to have been shown the extent of my raging addiction.

Some pictures from drought week:
 

Swing!



Spring!



Cute little thing!

 

Ok, I'll stop rhyming.

 

We haven't decorated our bedroom since rearranging to fit the new bed, and I kind-of like it this way. Wabi sabi, man.

Always reading.

 

Pretty quilt.

 

Our little reading den.

 

What else is new with us? Her vocabulary continues to blow my mind - too many new words to count, and she's learning everyday. Current favourites include octopus, tofu and toot. She's really into pretending right now, so feeding her toys, making them kiss things, pretending to go to bed, using anything and everything as a phone... This is a delightful age. Delightful, I tell you.

Just now, as I was writing this, she sat bolt upright and went 'Monkeys! Monkeys! Monkeys!', then went back to sleep. God, they are funny.