Portraits

My children are so delicious today. Izzie gathers toy cars and spoons and plastic cups and jelly moulds and takes them quietly out to the drive and builds roads and hills and lands and imaginatings in the gravelly stones.

Bax decides at dawn to dress in a costume and appears in the door way in a tutu, baseball cap, fariy wings and bob the builder shoes.

He says "Hey I've got a great idea..." And "That's just ridicalass" And "This is delicious" and "I love you Mummy"

Izzie says "Me do it!" and "Naughty Izzie"

They help G build things , the latest is a table with sand piled onto it and plenty of space to make roads and have adventures - like a sandpit but not a pit. They know it's not for keeps but for sharing with friends at playground - that makes it even more exciting.

We go for a walk to the end of the road and back and it takes us 45 minutes and the sun goes down before we get back to our garden. Both kids on their plastic bikes, they know exactly where the slight hill begins , I can barely see it, and they race down it with their feet held into mid air - freewheeling.

They eat plums straight off the tree. Bax knows which ones are ripe and reaches up to get one for Izzie, and anothe for me.

They go to bed with red chins.

G wakes up and says "Ooo I feel sleepy, I think we'll stay home all day and skip playgroup."

Bax wakes up and says "Hey I've got a great idea, let's take the new sandtable to playgroup Dad"

Bax wins.