When the sun shines

Since the weather has been so beautiful lately, Ollie and I have really been enjoying the outdoors this week.

As it was my turn to host mother's group this week I thought it might be nice to spread out on the empty deck (which we had painted last week). I set up lots of rugs and cushions and we had a really lovely time - especially the babies who are crawling(ish), they loved the open space. Ollie and I enjoyed being out there so much that we decided camp out there for the rest of the week. We have dubbed it "Camp Ollie" and each morning we take our stuff out there and laze around playing "cups", singing songs and drumming on stuff together.

Another way we delighted in the early springtime weather was a lovely picnic on Thursday at the Botanical Gardens with my friend from work Thalia and her son Percy. We normally meet at the local shopping centre where we have coffee and wander around the shops but I think this is a much better move. Mainly because it doesn't encourage me to spend money!! The only bad part of the outing was Ollie did a massive face-plant off my lap onto the grass. He let out a pretty massive cry and I think he had a little mark on his nose from it but I guess we are going to have a few more of those in the coming months with learning to crawl, stand, walk etc.

In Ollie developments he is getting very vocal at the moment. He makes the most amazing noises with his mouth - from blowing raspberries to consonants (including dadadada - lucky Nick) to his hilarious click-clack noises with his tongue. Couple this with his banging and shaking of every object he can get his hands on and he is quite the one-man band.

We are lucky enough to have Nick home with us for the week ahead so we've agreed to offer him an associate membership to Camp Ollie!!

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