Lydia

I love this photo of Lydia running ahead of me in the park; I can just feel her movement, and her joy in being able to run ahead of me. We walk across this park several times a day going to & from Georgie’s pre-school, and my littlest girl has started asking to get down from the pushchair so she can walk across the park on her own two feet. 

Lydia loves to run ahead of me, collect huge handfuls of sticks, jump in muddy puddles (we’ve had to wash a pair of her trainers this week after that one), and generally act like any toddler with freedom does! I generally scoop her up when we reach the other side and strap her back into her buggy, so our walks across the park seem to be taking more and more time as she dawdles and plays her way across, in an effort to delay the inevitable, instead of going straight from A to B.

I just love this photo of Lydia fast asleep after a busy morning at playgroup earlier in the week. She usually naps for around two and a half hours in the mornings so Tuesday mornings mean she has to stay awake a lot longer than normal, and she ended up crashing out on the way home.

She was very happy to wake up as soon as she realised it was lunchtime though!

Last night we were in the girls bedroom sorting them out for bedtime, reading stories and generally settling them down for the night. We must remember to pick up some batteries today, Lydia was unimpressed that Ewan has started to sound a bit ill!

James was taking a few pics of me reading to Georgie, for an upcoming review, and Lydia wanted to get in on the action. This photo is the result of that, and it seems to sums up her personality perfectly. There are also a lot of quite amusing not-so-good ones that will probablly be cropping up in #theouttakes next weekend!

This week after playgroup we headed to the play area behind the hall and the girls had a fab time on the swings, slides and other play equipment. Lydia just had her soft leather shoes on but as it was just grass we let her toddle about a bit.

Lydia hasn’t really been able to sit on grass since last summer so it was almost like a new experience for her.

The ground has been so muddy over the last few months that whenever we have been outside Lydia has been in someones arms, in the wrap, or in a pushchair or smart-trike. The hard soled shoes that we had for Georgie at this age were all in storage, and we haven’t been able to go anywhere to buy Lydia a “first pair of shoes” so our poor girl hasn’t really been able to walk around outside yet.