A little birthday present from my brother Ben and his girlfriend Emma. Well done Bro – it arrived right on my birthday – all the way from Australia. Full of fun activities to do with the kids (still weird to use the plural).

And in case you were wondering… I ALWAYS carry a basket and wear an apron while tending to my sunflowers.

Grooving before bedtime. It’s been a little while since Thomas has picked up the guitar. Tonight’s playlist? “Rock-a-bye Your Bear” and “Play Your Guitar with Murray”. Both by The Wiggles of course.

Thomas loves playing with the magnets on the fridge. We have some magnets of different foods that came with a Sesame street playset and he spends a lot of time arranging them and rearranging them. We also have some alphabet magnets (remember the same alphabet magnets they had when you were a kid?). We started off with – well – 26 magnets. One for each letter of the alphabet. Now we have just one – the letter “W”. Not sure where the rest of them went. I’m sure most of them are under the fridge but that will have to remain one of the mysteries in life – until we renovate the kitchen anyway.