Somewhere in moving house we miss placed the little noddy trike that we were given second hand for Jeany. This made us sad as Mary really loves the little push along thing my friend Becca and her sister bough up for us after little Millie had out grown it. This showed us that Mary would adore a trike especially as she started trying to steal Jean's bike.
So for Mary's second birthday we got her one joint with my family. It had to be assembled but has gone down a storm!
She loved it straight away to the extent that she kept stealing the wheels as the were being attached to it!
Since then she has been on and off of it constantly 🙂
She scoots it alone completely ignoring the pedals which she's not quiet big enough for yet anyway!
She got a late Christmas present of a tea set as well which she packs into the seat - takes for a ride and then deposits somewhere else in the room! Obviously it is an outside too but she is so excited by it at the moment we are allowing it to stay inside for a bit.
Fluffy Obsidion, the rescue baby bunny we took on has been living in our kitchen but with weather improving and him not being so small anymore it was time he was moved out into the garden - into the run.
He loves it 🙂 He sits in his hutch like he owns the place. He doesn't do happy jumps like Blacky did but he does race around and look interested in things.
It is another valentines day and again me and Alaric have failed to do the traditional type of thing.
This time we built shelves for the kitchen (well got half way through building them with the help of my Dad).
We had take away pizza deal with wedges and stuff for 6 of us and I started reading the girls the complete works of Will S. on Jean's request.
We went through some songs that ment things to us and went to bed - mostly Nick Cave and Tori Amos.
We are happy with this - I don't think either of us was cut out for the standard hyped mush that happens with V-Day. As Alaric said it has become something repulsive with all the commercial stuff. The idea of having to buy expensive gifts to show your love :/
This doesn't mean we don't celebrate but it's more making cardboard hearts with the girls and covering stuff with glitter. Last year I knitted a phone cover for Al - that sort of thing.
This year I wrote him a poem.
Years ago now I made a little game up to help inspire writers which I would take along to meetings. The first ones were hand made and coloured in, then I cut shapes from cards and glued them together for mark two and then I made a digital version and got a set printed with moo...
Since then I have made a large version which I take to festivals and kid's workshops and so on.
Now as part of World Poetry Writing Month a couple of packs of the cards are being given away. All you need to do is make a comment in on the WoPo site here.
The cards are not yet for sale so this is probably your only chance to get a copy for a while yet and I know some of you have been waiting for them to be launched 🙂
I ment to start cooking them at like 5 but I went for what was supposed to be a short nap and nobody wanted to wake me up so I got up at 7:30 :/
I was grumpy but it was decided that the girls could stay up late and at 9 o'clock we finally had pancakes!
We had savoury and sweet and so on and the girls really enjoyed it!
Mary | sarah | 
Sun 17th Feb 2013 2:59 am | 
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