The sun was streaming through the window when I was woken by the early morning chorus: “Maaaameeeee!” To be fair, it wasn’t actually that early so it wasn’t that bad and it’s nice to know she wants to see me first thing in the morning.
That was until I went to see her and her first words this morning were asking where her Auntie Numbnuts was.
We found bluebells this morning. Gorgeous.
After brekkie, we got dressed, jumped on her trike and headed off for a walk to the park. It was definitely park weather this morning. Now. There are a few parks near us but she has recently taken a total shine to the rolly rolly slide at Victoria Park. Which was good as there is a lovely walk there a decent distance away from the house.
Rolly rolly!
The only issue was that I might have taken a wrong turn and I may have added an extra 20 minutes or so onto the walk. Great for me, my legs, for Cancer Research, not so for Wee Daftie who kept asking where the rolly rollys were. Whoops.
The other thing that cracked me up on our wandering was how she loved shouting under each bridge, to hear her wee voice echo. There is a long tunnel at one part and she kept blurting out full and hilarious sentences like, “Went to buy wellies with DINOSAURS!” And “Going to the Rolly Rollys!” And, “I singing like Mrs Botti!” The effect of the echo was lost with the sheer length of each proclamation but it was fabulous.
Mrs Botti is a character from one of her Thomas books. Alicia Botti is an Opera singer, Wee Daftie is not.
After we exhausted the slides and worked out on the little jungle gym, we headed for a coffee to warm up a bit before finishing our steps and our walk home for lunch. She loves a coffee shop, does my girl. Absolutely gets that from me.
My other favourite part to this day was as we walked from the park to the cafe, she started making up a little song which we sang together. It was really fun and a terrible song but it was worth the…admiring (?) glances from our fellow pedestrians.
Just hanging out, working out, being a monkey.
The rest of the afternoon was just reading, drawing and a nap. My girl is fast dropping her nap so she’s currently only having about two naps a week. Today was a nap day and it was well earned. It is obviously exhausting looking after a small whirling dervish 24/7 but it feels super intensified on her no nap days. Which is 5 days out of 7.
Not that I would change it for the world.
Another day happily done, here’s to another good day.
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Travels With My Daftie 