Cherry Plum Bum

Hi All, we are in the warm lovely days of June when the cherry plum tree in our back yard produces fruit. Last year the crop was poor, affected by a late freeze and wind storm, this year it made up for that by producing a bumper crop. We collect them in huge buckets and are processing them as fast as we can. Devon is about to resort to fermenting them. As it turns out Fiona loves cherry plums too. Her bum however has a little problem with the after effects of lots of acid fruit. It s difficult to keep her away from them as they are all over the house and yard. As you can see she helps herself, pits and all. I suppose that it's good that she likes fruit so much. Just wish she was old enough to help with the pitting.

Love
Louise

Fiona in the morning

Lately we have been enjoying sleeping in more often, don't get us wrong, Fiona still wakes up at sparrowfart but we have a trick: Stock the farthest places in the house with the most loved toys, and in the morning when she is itching to get onto the bed and rub books into your face remind her gently that her penguin, her ant, the ball, nay Luna is in need of finding and off she goes for a few minutes allowing her parents to eek a few more minutes of sleep out of the night.
We hope you're getting more sleep than us,
Love
Louise

Wishful Thinking

Hi all, It has been a long time since I posted anything new, but we have been well and enjoying our start to summer here. We were busy agonizing over a car purchase for a few weeks in there and finally got a new family station wagon. with lots of bells and whistles and a backseat for Fiona and a place for Luna too.
The new car is very plush compared with what we have been used to, we also got Fiona's little green potty which is a bit of wishful thinking but we hope that she has potetntial in this area. For the moment she spends a lot of time running around in the sunshine "sans pants" being surprised by her piddles when they happen.
I hope that she is making connections in this area, learning to sit on the potty can be a challenge, it's surprising the ways she choses to sit on it not knowing the custom, feet in the bowl are never a good idea.

Love
Louise