These are pictures from our day today. Edzea wears her new wooden shoes from Bumpa to do all of her gardening.  Kids and I spent some time in the garden as usual although I didn’t get anything accomplished today. I have lots of planting to do. Chippy has now eaten our sunflower shoots too so we really have to cage our kids garden patch somehow.

Rohan and Neve both ended up in my bed during nap time today and Rohan wanted to hold hands with Neve and fell asleep doing so. So cute!

A big toad hopped through our garden today. The kids were thrilled of course! We also found a goldmine of wild strawberries at the edge of our property today…Edzea was so excited she sprinted into the house to get us a container to pick them in. About 2 minutes after we started picking, the thunder shower that had been threatening unleashed upon us so we decided to pick up on our picking again tomorrow!

We did something special tonight. We went out to the late night public swim (late for the kids!) from 7-8:30 pm. I wanted to reinforce Edzea’s latest swimming accomplishment. Sure enough, she had a fantastic time and is just getting better and better. I was in the water with her and Rohan for the first part until Neve started fussing and Rohan cut his foot on the hot tub???!!! so then Tim took over and swam with Edzea while I took the other two into the change room. I’ve signed us all up for about 3 weeks of daily swimming lessons in July before we head west. Edzea will have her lessons at the same time as Rohan and I go into lessons and I’ll have Neve in childminding at the pool. So, hopefully Rohan gets more and more comfortable in the water too.