March is bringing some nicer weather with it. It is good to see more daylight hours return to our days. The feeling of gloom is wearing off and we are spending more time outdoors taking the kids walking and letting them play around the garden. We have also started sorting our garden out and the house continues to come along beautifully!
Last year Bella and Marc were so unused to going for a walk that they would both scream and sit on the floor, at age 5 and 7 and demand to be carried or refuse to move. I remember this happening with Caden and Miles when they were toddlers and I dealt with it then, they are so used to walking and cycling everywhere that this is long gone.
So we had to start from the beginning with Bella and Marc, they clearly had never been taken out on family walks in nature before and had no patience for it or enjoyment of the environment.
Now... things have improved, I am delighted to say. No longer do we as parents have to endure the screaming, literally the entire walk round which is often an hour. We have gone out on walks with friends, which keeps them interested and builds up their strength and endurance and we have gone walking frequently. The kids all know that we don't carry them, they are all big enough to walk and climb and make the most of being outdoors.
It has to be said though that on this particular walk, the mud was so thick that Caden lost his welly in the mud, it was sucked off his foot! He stood in his sock in the mud and started wailing! I lent him one of my socks and I did the walk half sockless instead! In all, it was a nice walk, though we got pelted with rain and hail half way round as well which the kids dealt with! It was sunny when we set off out!
Jan gives our very big puppy a cuddle! They have grown so much! This one is called Stinker!
Bella having fun on the walk
Something about walking gets the questions coming from them. We have more opportunity to talk about nature and biology, the weather and anything else that they can think of.
The kids all went to a friend's birthday party. I am making some good friends in this area now finally and the kids are becoming great friends with their children. Star Wars is very much the game of the moment right now.
It was a cupcake party so the kids all had a great tim making and eating their cakes.
Miles still sticks his tongue out with effort and concentration haha!
Lighting the candles!
Jan has got all the kid's bikes out now it is getting warmer and we are clearing the outside of the farm. He serviced them all and greased up the chains and tested them.
Caden has been zooming around the farm tracks on his bike and I have ordered them all new helmets and some knee pads for Caden (his silver bike is a shade too big so the knee pads will hopefully give him a bit of confidence).
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