We had a date with one of our best Mammy Mates and her littlies this morning. Apart from the essential emotional and caffeine based support, we have had quite a bit of physical walking support this month from this gang. This is our third walk together for Cancer Research and we decided to head to Gorgie City Farm for the morning.
Where I found her while I was in the bathroom.
I love going to the city farm. Wee Daftie loves animals and, more importantly, she likes shouting hello at them. Sadly, I didn’t take any photos this morning we were too busy having a lovely time but the lambs were cute, the chickens were in fine form, the cows where a little quiet and the ducks were very conversational.
Actually, there were two stunning ducks that were dark navy and teal in colour; almost like they had been dropped in iridescent paint. I had never seen anything like them and they were fabulous.
Couldn’t resist this wee snap. Such concentration while creating her masterpiece.
Our time was half spent walking about and talking to the animals and the other half letting the two bigger of the three littlies running about like loons in the playground. It is such a privilege to see her tiny friendships develop. They have gone from being too small to really interact to properly playing games, colouring, doing puzzles and “reading” books together.
Making pizza for dinner!
We didn’t have a day without incident but it was short lived. I decided that we should probably have a nap today, which we did, and then a creative afternoon for colouring, baking and making dinner together.
The Daft Family Household is a team so when Daddy Daftie is away, it’s left to us two to work as a duo. I feel like making a joke about being a coxless pair but Daddy Daftie may think I am calling him names. And I am discovering more and more that us girl Dafties work best when we are really working towards something together. So when I feel like we aren’t on the same page, I like to get an activity going to bring us back together.
And thankfully, for now at least, it usually does the trick!
This is what happens when you let your small human “sprinkle” flour.
We didn’t manage as many steps in the daytime so I finished off with a Leslie Sansone walk after bedtime. Happy days.
Four days to go! Crazy.
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Travels With My Daftie 