For the bank holiday weekend we went for an adventure up to the top of cleeve common.   It’s the first time we’ve really let you roam free when we’re out and about.  You walked the whole way from the car park to the viewing point, a good 25minute walk up and down woulds.  We saw sheep (and golfers) roaming free and sat and had a picnic made from the last remaining remnants of the fridge.  We snacked on ham sandwiches, home made hummus and then delicious cupcakes.  You stared amazed at the sheep roaming wildly and when we called you back you turned to us and said your first ‘WHY?’  Adventuring out and about is exctly the kind of things I want us all to do more of but then get cold feet about.  But the amazing thing about nature is that you can be free to run and shout and jump and climb, there are no time limits and no tickets required.  It’s the perfect place for you, time passed without us noticing and 2 hours later we returned home, thoroughly exhausted but wonderfully happy.

You are as ever at the heart of our family, coming along for our adevntures and taking in everything you see with those extra big eyes.   You are making your presence known, you’re grabbing on to everything in sight, with increasing speed, strength and accuracy.  This week, as I began to make a cup of tea you managed to take hold of the milk bottle and tip it over, pools of milk washing over the floor.  If I sit you in the bumbo as I cook you’ll be stealing all the utnesils from the jar, and have taken a fancy to a sandwich bag full of scraps of paper.  Your bed time routine is beginning to kick in, tucked up in your growbags at night for the first time you sleep peacefully in your cot until 11 when you wake for your milk.