There are potatoes, tractors and plastic dinosaurs, what more could you possibly want

[nanila]

I have been outrageously busy at work this week and I don't have the brain to string these together into a proper narrative. My apologies. So: Have a series of happy photos from the past week or so.


[Keiki with freshly dug potatoes in his fist, ready to deposit them in one of the two white bowls in front of him.]

We ate our first potato harvest tonight. Yum!


[Humuhumu and Keiki eating twisty fruity ice lollies whilst sitting on the edge of the paddling pool.]

This scene has been repeating daily for about a week, sometimes more than once.


[Keiki with “his” big green John Deere tractor at the Three Counties show in Malvern.]


[Keiki and Mummy enjoying the sun at the Three Counties show.]


[Two tyrannosaurs and a spinosaurus noshing on the passengers in the upper deck of a wooden London bus. This is what happens after the children go to bed and the parents start drinking in the front room with all the toys.]


[Keiki sitting on Daddy’s lap on a canal lock gate during one of our evening walks along the towpath.


[The pub viewed from beneath the neighbouring bridge, in the early morning light at the start of my commute to London.]

Comments

[alatefeline]

These are wonderful! Thank you.

[nanila]

I'm glad you enjoyed them! :)

[st_aurafina]

Omg, poor tiny wooden people! I hope they were fully restored to life once the children were awake.

These are such gorgeous photos. So summery!

[nanila]

If I remember right, the children rescued the people and restored order to the bus.

But then the dinosaurs had a big fight amongst themselves and that was carnage.

Thank you!

Glasses make the world go round

[ed_rex]

Or maybe not. Regardless, there is something unbelievably cute about a small child sporting an enormous pair of spectacles. Possibly I say this because I became a four-eyes while still quite young (5 or 3, depending on which parent you ask), though my frames were never quite so brilliantly blue as are Humuhumu's.

Re: Glasses make the world go round

[nanila]

She has another pair of peach-coloured frames and she switches between them depending on her mood.

It's so nice to have such a wide range of choices for frames for her. There'll be even more the next time her prescription changes. :)

[meepettemu]

Your kids are so pretty. And that last pic is gorgeous :)

[nanila]

Aw, thank you. It was such a clear, still morning. The air was cool and crisp. A lovely way to start the day.

[paw_prints]

Lovely pics as always Nanila. :) You have the cutest kids.

The perfect reflection in the last one is amazing!

[nanila]

Thank you!

Yes, it's not often that it's so very still. It was a gorgeous morning.

[alatefeline]

That one could be an art print or a postcard somewhere; it's spectacular, and makes me want to take your train just for the sheer pleasure of the scenery.

[cmcmck]

We need to take a look at our spud crop.

[nanila]

We picked ours a bit too early, so yours are likely perfect now!

[lurkingcat]

Those are lovely pictures!

And everything is better with dinosaurs.

[nanila]

Thank you!

Yes, yes it is. Especially drinking cold beers in front of terrible background television.

[silveradept]

Keiki and Mummy is a really cute picture, and I enjoy seeing what the grownups get to with the toys.

[nanila]

Thank you. One thing that makes me chuckle is the tattered state of my plait in that photo. This is because when he's riding on my shoulders, Keiki has this tendency to pluck meditatively at my hair.

[mysterysquid]

Alcoholic dinosaurs are a menace!

[nanila]

One must keep a close eye on them. :D