It’s been half term this week and we have been enjoying spending some quality family time together with your friends and family. Yesterday was the last day before daddy went back to work, and you enjoyed lounging on the sofa with him watching Shrek, and then came outside to help me do some digging and watering. I told you that before you could come outside you needed your shoes, so you decided to steal one of mine instead. I admit it did make me laugh. You are growing more persistent and developing your own wants and desires, you flatly refuse to wear your new shoes always asking for ‘brown shoes’ and today even had an opinion on which jumper you wore. I’m kind of used to making all these decision for you, I think I will be on a steap learning curve.
Daddy has loved cuddling you this week, he misses you very much when he is at work. Thankfully we do get time to spend all together during the holidays and cherish those moments, stopping to admire every inch of your tiny body. You are a massive lover of water, even when your brother splashes you in the face you still kick and laugh with your eyes wide open taking everything in. Nothing seems to phase you, you look to us for reassurance if something startles you and just by looking into your eyes and smiling you know everything is ok. Your brother is your favourite person, he makes you giggle and grin. Whenever you wake up, day or night he says ‘morning baby’ over and over and does a little dance. Your weight has been troubling me, but the health visitors don’t seem worried, you look happy and healthy and are gaining rolls of fat under your chin and on your hands. I love your hands, the way they grip on to me tight, strong even though they are so very small.
“And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire. ”
– Exerpt, Adelstrop by Edward Thomas
I am so excited as I sit here quickly editing down these photos of our garden that I took this morning. It is all misty, dull and grey outside but I was amazed at how much I saw poking out from the earth and shooting out from the branches. I didn’t think there would be much to share but how wrong I was. Everything I have photographed has been planted by the previous owners so I am purely admiring their bountiful handiwork.
There will never be another ‘first’ spring in our garden. Not like this year where I have scowering the earth for signs of life, I can see so many spring bulbs, I have no idea what colour they will be or quite what they are. How wonderful. I discovered today that there are bulbs planted in a circle around the plum tree in the middle of the lawn. As these grow I will update the photo labels so I can identify them correctly but as yet it’s still really difficult to label them.
Not all these photos are in focus as I was desperately hopping around the garden, baby strapped to my chest in a sling with one eye keeping an eye on Nye as he watered every inch of the vegetable beds. I have included them as I desperately want to work out what all the plants are! If you know can identify any of the plants please enlighten me. (p.s yes I am incredibly lucky to have inherited this amazing garden.)
Then, in the vegetable garden Nye is busy at work, transferring rain water from a trug, to a watering can, to his wheel barrow. He is totally in his element un-phased by the cold, quietly concentrating on his ‘work.’. As I am snapping away in the back garden I suddenly hear him talking to the postman who has posted my neighbors post through my door.
There are even a few flowers to be found, in January, I can’t quite believe my eyes.
Thank you for dropping by, as usual I am linking up with the How Does Your Garden Grow linky.
