Seven Days of Very Busy (and Sunny)

1: Sushi
2: Lavender Bunny
3: Newly dyed hair
4: Museum lift awkward loveliness
5: Big and Small beams
6: Park smile
7: Skating
8: Litter picking in the brook

Mainly a week-in-pictures of Alder

1: Asleep on the park
2: Potions
3: Sleeping again (but, I swear, it only *looks* like he sleeps all the time because I can't resist taking the camera out every time)
4: Chatty
5: Rock find
6: Post Office run
7: Sibling love

Easterish Week in Pictures

1: Multitasking sister

2: Something else to chew

3: Potions with Ashleigh

4: Cake

5: Tired out (early shifts/growth spurt)
6: Anniversary late night ice cream date for Martin and I - plus five adorable kidlets
7: Learning to roll allll the way over is also tiring

Here Comes the Sun

February and March have been sunshine and snow, adventures, flu, small quiet everyday beauty, and an endless barking cough. When we haven't been snowed in, we've had a series of illnesses that have cancelled most of our plans and disrupted my newfound sense of the world opening up to us again. 

Yet in a lot of ways it has been like a second babymoon. We're glorying in this new tiny sibling, and enjoying quiet crafts in our cosy, comfortable, ridiculously messy, nest. 

Our sapling is a week shy of four months old. Exactly a year ago I was starting to get sick, and thinking it would probably be a short-lived blip. I'm gradually mourning those lost months less. I'm also incredibly, ludicrously grateful for every cuddle with Alder. Every expression, every quirk, every little chat.

Four months has gone in the blink of an eye.

(Titled for Alder's favourite song.)

Some memories of Alder's second month