The Best Things In Life Are Free..

For Easter this year Dom surprised Skye with her very own strawberry plant to take care of and watch grown!

She took great care with watering it and got excited when she started to see the small green strawberries starting to grow!

We noticed the other night that she finally had one big red strawberry ready to be picked and once we told her she couldn't wait to pick it off and try it!

I love watching her learn about things and seeing the excitement in her eyes over things we take for granted every day, it really is the best seeing life again through her eyes!

After picking her first strawberry she couldn't wait for more to grow, and was excited to be able to pick quite a few this morning before nursery!

I love summer mornings when the air is still crisp and the sun is shining, I can't wait to explore life more with this little one!

What are your favourite things about summer? Do you grow your own fruit/veg? :) 

Thanks for reading! x

Easter 2017!

I can't believe that Easter has been and gone already! This year is really flying by!

We had a great Easter and really enjoyed the Easter holidays!

Skye went to bed excited for the Easter bunny and was really pleased to wake up and see what he had left for her! :)

I love how excited she gets for all these things now that she is a little older!

We then went out for lunch with all the family and Skye got to run around and play with her older cousins.

Once lunch was done we headed back to mum's and the kids did a little Easter egg hunt! Though I'm not sure who got more excited about it...*ahem...Dom* ..!!

  

After a lovely day and too much chocolate, we were all ready for a good nights sleep! 

When Skye went back to nursery after the holidays, we found out they were doing an Easter bonnet parade on the Friday, so we bought supplies to make her a hat! She really enjoyed making her hat and sticking all the things we had got to go on it, Dom was even allowed to help her!

I'll definitely remember her first Easter bonnet parade forever, she did so great even though she was very nervous about it! I still remember doing my Easter bonnet parades when I went there all those years ago! ( I hated it!! )

I don't need you mummy!

Why are these words so hard to hear?!

Skye just went to use the toilet, and she marched in ahead of me, stopped at the door and said "I don't need you mummy.." she pulled the door shut behind her and left me stood outside wondering where my baby went!!

It seems like only yesterday that she couldn't even hold her own head up without me, now she apparently doesn't need me!

It so tough to hear as a mum (or dad!) that they don't need you and obviously we know that's not true,  I mean come on she's three, but still ..!!

On the flip side though it makes me so proud how grown up she is becoming, and she's really found her confidence in doing things for herself since starting nursery.

Anyone else clinging on to the baby years, dragging them out for as long as possible?!

Sparklers and Hot Chocolate!

After a long day at work on Saturday I was so excited to get home and enjoy an evening of sparklers and hot chocolate cosiness!

We made sure to get lots of sparklers this year as Skye really enjoyed them last year and we ran out! However this year she wasn't too sure if she enjoyed them or not! (TYPICAL!!) She enjoyed watching Dom do one then thought she would be brave and do one herself and she loved it! (phew!!)

It was super cold out though and Leo was going totally crazy all evening at any noise he heard! Once he hears one firework he is completely anxious for the whole evening, it's so horrible seeing him so on edge and upset, if he's not barking then he's whimpering. Poor poochi!

Once we had finished outside doing all the sparklers we came inside to have our hot chocolate which I had prepared early using the slow cooker recipe I had found online.. so yummy!! I will  make sure to share the recipe on here soon as it's so easy and so nice to have it ready when you want it!

Here are a few photos from our bonfire night!

Autumn Memories..

I've always enjoyed taking photos (of everything!) and it's become so easy to take quick snaps on your phone that we forget about the expensive cameras sat on the side collecting dust!

So every so often I like to take proper photos on a proper camera, just so I have some super nice pictures and manage to capture Skye growing up in more than just an everyday snap!

As halloween was on a Monday I decided this would be a good day, the weather was beautiful, warm and sunny with a real autumn feel in the air. However as Skye has got older, she doesn't really want to cooperate in my photo shoots I have planned, but bless her she does any way and we have great fun in-between me desperately snapping away!

I love how these photos turned out, even the ones where she looks so fed up!! It's always fun to look back at these posts, I'm still so in love with her first halloween photos we took!

Haha how fed up?!