the me and mine project {july}

Rich is loving

* watching Preacher on Amazon Prime.

* getting to see all of Dylan's school work from this year.

* seeing Ashlyn crawling about.

* some really good work training in Germany.

* having a new phone with 4G.

Lucy is loving

* having all three kiddos home for six weeks.

* seeing Quinny getting so mobile.

* two amazing end of year reports for Dylan and Everly.

* the performing arts festival at Dylan's school.

* the fact that we've been married for seven years TODAY!

Dylan is loving

* the school holiday finally being here.

* singing songs from his school performing arts festival.

* reading his book all about the human body.

* playing Pokemon Go.

* swimming in Nanny's hot tub.

Everly is loving

* picnics.

* collecting My Little Pony blind bags.

* her jelly flip flops.

* getting Quinny to smile for her.

* summer dresses.

Ashlyn is loving

* crawling everywhere and standing up.

* food, especially Ella's Kitchen Bangers and Mash.

* sleeping in her new cot.

* stealing the television remotes.

* Mummy!!!!

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happy place blanket

I've been itching to show off this blanket in all it's glory since before I even started it. I have shared little glimpses of it along the way as a work in progress on my instagram (you can find all the photos by searching #happyplaceblanket), but now I'm indulging in all the details of it here for anyone who is interested in the pattern, the colours and my inspiration for making it in the first place.

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you are nine months old {dear beautiful little lady}

dear Ashlyn,

Nine months old...! It's a milestone age I think, a bit like when you turned three months and left the "newborn" days behind, or at six months where you marked half a year; nine months is that point where you have been out in the world as long as you were baking in my tummy. And much like that nine months that I was pregnant with you now seems like a distant memory, this first nine months with you has simply flown by. Nine months ago you came crashing into the world, a little bundle of tufty hair and big eyes. We waited for you to totally rock our worlds and turn everything upside down... but you just seamlessly slotted into our family and into our hearts like you were always supposed to be there.

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the siblings project {july}

Three little people all looking at the camera. All smiling. Not the most inspiring photos ever, but I love them anyway. And did I mention the three smiles AT the camera... I still get an award or something, right?

The relationship between these three little cheeky smilers seems to be changing and growing so much at the moment and it's fascinating to watch. As a unit of three they can do more and more together now that Ashlyn is so much more active and upright and generally inquisitive about everything around her. That gap between her as "the little one" and them as "the big two" seems to get smaller each day and they really do feel like a proper little team of three more and more. They seem to have that sense of belonging to one another which is hard to put into words. But they seek each other out, and they love being together as three; as a whole set, and it's clear that it just doesn't seem quite right when one is missing.

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