Oh YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for some sunshine! I have to write this to rebalance my whinge about the rain in my last post. We now have a bounteous three tomatoes in our mini-greenhouse thingy, one courgette coming along and the end room of the house (that faces south-west so becomes like a sauna on a sunny day) is Seedling Central. 

This room, our growing room/office, is our baby-unfriendly room. Our other rooms are babyproofed so that he can romp and explore fairly freely; in the end room he is closely supervised. This way, the computer stays working and Baby D unelectrocuted, seeds remain in their pots and soil out of his mouth, Mr Heartshapedhands' wordwork tools remain untouched and Baby D's fingers remain attached to him and things I have made to sell remain in a hopefully saleable condition.

He is my sunshine son. It's so much easier when we can spend time outside in our garden, at the park or on longer walks with relaxed facial muscles and freely swinging arms (as opposed to the scrunched face, stiff arms and hunched shoulders that I typically don on windy rainy days). Of course, not every day is sunny here in South West Blighty. This can be hard on my sunshine son who seems to get bored and fractious when indoors a lot. Which is hard on a Mama Mo whose energy level range tends to be somewhere between tired and exhausted anyway!

Perhaps I will discover some rainy day activities for an energetic baby- I'll share them here if I do. He seems a bit too young for a lot of creative activities and isn't always in the mood for his books. Last week we did make our first visit to a soft play centre, Veritas in Keynsham. £1.50 not badly spent; lovely staff, Baby D had a whale of a time and I went in a ball pool for the first time in, like, 15 years! Motherhood's way too exciting. ♥