A bit of a big kid #countrykids
Can’t resist going back to our holiday photos. I know it was a while ago but because i have been so slack at blogging lately there are still loads of cool things we got up to on our jolly that i have yet to post to the blog. So here we go again.
The title of this post is a bit misleading i suppose. I don’t actually mean it. Im referring to my OH who, when we were rock pooling and kite flying discovered some other things to get up to. Which, to be honest, is not a surprise at all. Not long after I met my husband I got a phone call telling me that he had, had a fall from a climb on a sea cliff in Devon. He isnt just ‘having a go’ at climbing. He is a climber and it, sometimes properly freaks me out as the height that they go is scary and also the small bits of ‘gear’ that is preventing them from plummeting to the ground gives me a coronary.
But one thing i do know and can be assured of is that if there is a bit of craggy old rock on a walk or somewhere near where we are…this will happen…
and I wonder why i am tearing my hair out with these bunch of lunatic, adrenaline junky kids i have on my hands? hmmmm. 😉
Certainly our youngest has got a fair size smack of her Daddy’s climbing gene. She has done it since she could walk. I was looking through some images the other day and i came across this one, which is her climbing a stool that is UNDER a bench!
One thing that does happen when my OH goes on a bit of a climb is that the whole bunch of kids are compelled to follow him and then I have on my hands a bunch of over enthusiastic mountain goats climbing any which way to get up to the top of the rock. It can get pretty scary! Even the littlest is given a bit of encouragement to have a go! 😉  excuse the nudity in this shot! 🙂
After a bit of climbing and a lot of grey hair grown by me. We all scrambled to the top of the rock and then there was some time for admiring the view, the odd shoulder carry and watching the kites again. One of our favourite things to do we found.
Overheard #wotsofunee
Two little girls sat in the bath
1: “when I grow up im going to be in a fairytale, like a princess in a story. Im going to have a horse, who will be white and have long hair..on his head, i think but as well on his back. I think I will have lots of long dresses and  live in a castle.
2: ‘me too’
1: ‘Im going to have lots of chocolate, the sort that mummy likes and *whispers* that she doesn’t let us have
2: ‘me too’
1: ‘My friends will all want to come and live in my castle and I will have lots of dogs’
2: ‘me too’
1: ‘I might let you come and visit me you know, if you are nice and are  a princess?’
2: *silence*
1: ‘what do you want to do? what do you want to be?’
2: *silence*
1: ‘do you want to be a princess?’
2: ‘no. i want to be a body!’
🙂
also linking up with Katie at Mummydaddyandme..ordinary moments.
Finding the time…to write…
This season I am in right now is the highest of high crazy and i seem to be unable to sit down for a few minutes or 20 to write on my blog. I am always a little in awe of people who manage to write so often and get posts edited an up all the time.
Im not sure if its that they can just formulate their thoughts a lot quicker than me or if they are less anal about the images they post. I am. I know it. I edit every single image that goes onto my blog and that takes time. I also wont post something im not happy with…so sometimes a post doesnt get written because i dont have the right image for it.
I guess images are important to me.
The time i write is at night generally when the kids are in bed and with our older ones going to bed later and later that time seems to be getting smaller and smaller..I dont need a whole lot of sleep but i do need sleep and generally i try and cut off by midnight because i get up at 6 and i think 6 hours sleep is the minimum really. (for me anyhow)
Ive tried writing in the day and its just too hard. If the kids are not sitting on the arm of the chair asking me questions then they are quiet somewhere and with toddlers we all know what that means!!
This week though my littlest has lost her daytime playmate to school and so the chance of writing in the day often looks like this….
I did try and in the end i gave up!
When is the best time for you to write?
(not so) #silentsunday #socialpix #365 #whatsthestory
Now I know words are now way never allowed in silent sunday..but i couldn’t actually post this picture without a bit of an explanation (hence its my whats the story as well!) Â and also some credit because as much as i would like to say this image was all my own idea. The image is mine, I shot it in a recent baby shoot i had with a really fabulous couple who were up for trying something a little bit different to what i would normally do but i had seen the idea of this sort of shot from the inspiration of, Tracy Willis, who is an incredible baby photographer. Â I thought wow and i have to have a go at that!!
I dont often post images from my photography work here on this blog (which i think i have mentioned before) but this image is more of a work in progess for me and part of my journey with my baby photography. The website i use for my clients is a little different and less of a blog and ongoing story if you like than this blog. So..i thought this was the right place for it. Its part of my story and this blog is exactly that!!
I have been playing with this image all week so it is my image of the week. 🙂
Oh and just to add as a disclaimer…even though i am using this as a silent sunday image i am not (and rarely do) link up to the silent sunday linky as this doesn’t follow the hosts rules about no words and Im not a rule breaker…haha! not all the time anyway 😉
