Enjoying looking through old photos that I took near my former home in Perth. Inspiration for current work. Reminiscing about a beautiful place that we once called home... Still feeling a bit homesick.
This winter has been particularly cold. I have been feeling it a lot especially considering that I was pregnant this time last year and I was feeling pretty toasty! So this winter my son and I have been enjoying some time indoors doing craft.
Since these photos were taken the lettuce and parsley have been eaten by the local possums. They are just resprouting now.
Currently in our winter garden we have:
strawberry plants
oregano
sage
lemongrass
mint
parsley
perpetual lettuce
mizuna greens
garlic chives
onion
A sprouting store bought onion which I planted in a pot to see what it would do.
I have never used sage in cooking before so I'm looking forward to trying this.
Just a little note to remember you at this stage in your life. You like to bounce. Earlier we used to put you in a Jolly Jumper, you don't need a Jolly Jumper, you can bounce quite well un-aided. You will bounce sitting on my knee or while being held, or held standing. This will be something about you I think I will remember overall about you as a baby. You have exuberance and joy. You love people - at a distance.
You are definitely Mummy's girl at the moment. You cry bitterly if I leave the room or if someone else holds you... this is flattering but frustrating at the same time.
You have three teeth now, the day you got your last two teeth you were chewing on my fingers like a Tassie devil.
Food
You love your mandarins, they are in season right now. When I am at the shops and you are in my sling you grab for mandarins while I pick them off the shelf. Your eye's light up when I start peeling one for you and you love to grab and squeeze segments between your fingers. I peel the skin off the segments and tear the segments in two, removing the seeds for you. Otherwise you will eat pretty much anything, but you are not a huge fan of rich creamy things such as avocado or ricotta cheese.
Your hair sticks up a lot. I love this, I like to imagine it is a mohawk. My hair was like that too at your age.
You adore your big brother. You will often stop crying if he is around or stop feeding if he is nearby. You follow his every move. You also love to watch Dad when he is home and you bounce in excitement when he is around. You like to "talk", saying "Ahhh" a lot and sometimes "mumumum", "bababab", "dadada", "yeah" stuff like that.
You are great at sitting up, you can't quite lift yourself up from lying yet but you are very close. You are physically strong but not in a hurry to go anywhere just yet.
Love,
Mum.
Easter craft with E. We drew on hard boiled eggs with crayons, mum and I dripped candle wax on some and we dyed them different colours with food colouring.
E's third birthday was last Sunday. We had a train party because trains are his current obsession. I had so much fun organizing this party, The train cake was the first cake I had made on my own. My mum made the cupcakes last year and for his first birthday mum helped me make the aeroplane cake.
Things are much better around here. Z is doing better, much healthier now. She is a delight.
This is the bedroom for our firstborn which we decorated this year. It will always be a work in progress as he grows up, but for now it is mostly finished. Blue paint colour is from Nippon paint, Cloud decals from
($7),
painted by me,
made by me, striped cushion cover made by my Mum, floor cushion from Freedom furniture, Trofast storage from Ikea, Miffy toy bought by Steve in Japan, Bunny was a gift from my sister, bed is a cutdown cot - Steve made the side rail.
