We had plans to meet friends this morning for a scoot and a walk along Crammond. That was what we planned. What I didn’t expect was for Wee Daftie to want to keep walking well after our friends went home.
For over an hour.
I love her energy but even I was surprised when she said she wanted to keep going! 13,000 steps clocked up by 1pm! Amazing. What a kid.
It was an amazingly bright and glorious day. The kind of day you don’t really believe is real. It was freezing, the grass was beautifully dappled with frost. Everything crunched underfoot and Wee Daftie was in her element cracking the glass like puddles.
The scooting didn’t last long but the kids still had a blast running about together and being bonkers. 4 year old friendships are precious. Sure they can get a bit emotional sometimes but it’s just such a pure joy.
And quite screechy at times.
We made it home for lunch, very much later than anticipated thanks to her determination to just keep on going. We had an afternoon of creating and being creative. We made some healthy plum muffins, did some drawing, listened to some music and coloured in a dinosaur.
The dino was a Christmas present and it came in a bag with coloured pens. Now. I kind of assumed, incorrectly, that it would be cotton or linen or some kind of soft material. It’s not. It’s a really weird papery texture but the markers worked well, dried nicely and now Wee Daftie’s brachiosaurus Frederick has a spotty pal called Belle.
Happy days.
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