Toodyay

Dear Matthew and Toby

As I'm sure I've documented plenty of times before on this blog, both of you hated driving in the car as babies. With your sibling on the way, I have been mentally preparing myself to be staying at home a lot when they appear (much like lockdown!). However, I've been saying for years that I've wanted to visit the Christmas shop in Toodyay, so on a recent Saturday we all set out to Toodyay, which is about 1.5 hours from Perth, as I knew once your sibling joins us we wouldn't be doing trips to the next suburb let alone a trip to a country town, for a very long time.

So we set off and enjoyed different songs together on our trip, before arriving in the town. Our first stop was the coveted Christmas 360, during which we all explored the amazing array of Christmas stuff. We then strolled up and down the main drag, and stopped for lunch at the pub. Afterwards we decided to the go the fairytale farm just out of town which had animals you could feed, fairytale character displays and giant games. You both had a great time feeding the animals and climbing all over the characters. We had a go at croquet together and giant Connect 4. 

We then headed home and Tobes you barely made it ten minutes in the car before zonking out! It was a fun day and I'm glad we were able to tick it off the list before bub arrives. 

Love you, 

Mum xxx

 

Park trip with Jorge

 Dear Matthew and Toby

This post is mainly for Toby, to remember how much you love your little friend Jorge. 

Jorge is my friend Robyn's eldest son, who is about six or seven months older than you Tobes. We met through a playgroup for attachment parents and you absolutely clicked with goegrous Jorge over the last year or so. It is so nice to see you two beautiful blondies running around together getting up to mischief! You seem to have your own little language and understanding of each other and you're both always giggling away :)

We recently went to a Manning Park in Hamilton Hill and you both loved playing on the playground, scooting, wading in the pond and running around like nutters together. It is so lovely to see you develop this and other friendships, lead by Matt's excellent example of being a great friend. 

Love you, 

Mum xxx