104. Two Years On (I'm a little bit of an Instagram addict and follow the actual Instagram's feed with interest. Every weekend they have a challenge called the Weekend Hashtag Project and last weekend's emulated the photography style of the blog Dear Photograph. As we were heading to Porthcawl anyway for the Chris & Pui Show, I dug out a photo of The Boy on the beach there from Father's Day 2010. A very windy day made it tricky to get an exact line up but I'm really chuffed with this photograph.)
105. Bubble Monster (Monday was absolutely beautiful and we played out in the garden for nearly three hours, most of that without a coat on. The Boy filled the garden with bubbles from his bubble blower that we'd bought him in Butlin's.)
106. Plopping (After dropping my car off to the garage to work out where a slightly alarming oil leak was coming from, we walked up to town for our second breakfast, then through the park and down to the beach. A quick scoot along the pier and the beach front, then down the lifeboat ramp to plop some pebbles into the sea, before walking home through the tree-lined Victorian avenues where The Boy promptly fell asleep. I collapsed on the sofa for half an hour having just completed a six mile round walk, before having to walk two miles back to the garage to pick my car up.)
107. Snuggle Down, Sleepyhead (It's a Wednesday – work day – and therefore it's a bed photo!)
108. Masterchef 2013 (On Thursdays I get home earlier from work and so we have time to play. I gave The Boy various ingredients and he decided to 'bake' us a ginger cake with his 'cooker'.)
109. Through The Kitchen Window (When we bought this house and did all the work on it, we had the kitchen window made bigger. I dreamed about the day that I'd see my child/ren playing in the garden while I cooked their dinner, etc. Today that came true, and I just stood and watched him for ten minutes as he repeatedly rolled his hoops down the slide, retrieved them, climbed up the side of the slide and started again. I love him.)
110. Reflections (We met up with my brother and his family in Roath Park today on a very sunny afternoon. One of his favourite places is the hothouse and so we spent a pleasantly sticky forty-five minutes watching the koi carp and terrapins in the pool before sauntering around the lake and feeding the swans. Life doesn't get much better!)
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Ah those blooming bubble guns. We came back with two of those from Butlins.
I have loved your Instgram photos in the DearPhotograph style so clever
i was watching my two play earlier out of my window too and loving such a simple mummy pleasure!
another round up of wonderful photos – the plopping one is nice as it is intriguing because you wonder what he is up to! and i love the master chef one – great imaginative ply captured there.
sounds like a fabulous week made better by some spring sunshine at last x
That reflection photo is amazing, thats my favourite of the week!!! I was going to saw the first was my fave till I saw the last one 🙂
I love the Masterchef one soo cute. Looks like a busy week in your house x
Your reflections photo is just stunning!
gosh a six mile walk is a big walk for little legs. like the cooking picture, such concentration on his face. The reflection shot is just brilliant.
Fab pictures as always – great to see some sunshine! Love the 'masterchef' pic 🙂
Love all the Dear Photograph shots, they are so clever but my favourite has got to be the refection one.
I adore the pictures you've taken as a time lapse – such a genius idea and that reflection pic is just Ah-Maz-ing!!!!!
Gorgeous photos again this week, you always seem to pack so much into a week. The boy looks so cute all snuggled in his blankets, but my favourite shot by far is reflections
Love the last shot. Great capture! Also loving the baking shot. Hope you were made something very tasty!
I love your pictures! the two years on image and also reflections are brilliant.
Great photos. I love the one of the reflection, very clever. I'm looking forward to watching my two from the kitchen window too – at the moment they still need watching from outside!
I absolutely adore seeing all the Dear Photograph photo's, it such a fantastic idea and the stories are so often really interesting. Will you do the same in another two years? The bubbles photo is lovely and really captures the fun of them and i LOVE the final photograph with the reflections. Quite stunning.
Love the Masterchef photo in a week of beauties (but then anything connected with food tends to win out with me)!
wow that looks like a fun week. love the chefs hat
Wow you have some stunning pictures this week. Very hard to pick which one I like best but think it would have to be the bubbles picture 🙂
I love the boy baking his cake. As always a lovely collection of photos
I love his chef hat and apron. The reflection shot is excellent 🙂
fantastic pics honey, I absolutely LOVE the reflections one! beautiful x
Loving the two years on photo – brilliant!
Feeling rather envious that you can get to the beach twice in one week and you aren't even on holiday. Loving the chef picture.
I loved your Dear Photograph series! I would love to do something similar next time we go back to norfolk.
You are so lucky living near the beach 🙂 I love the photo of the boy cooking too. x
It looks like you had a nice dry week (if not a bit cold) to get out and about. I do love the photo of Mini Master Chef at work – perfect.
Oh I've been loving your instagram pictures this week. So creative and wonderful to see how the landscape has changed. Love the shot of the boy holding the pic on the beach. Perfectly in line!
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Spring really has arrived!! Love the masterchef photo!
get the boy getting his chef on! love it!
What a super set of photos! Love the look on his face, concentration I think, when he is cooking, and the super reflection!
Gorgeous photos, as always. I love the bookends for this week – the 'Dear Photograph' shot is evidence that a picture really does speak a thousand words, and the reflection shot is really beautiful.
Roath Park is always a good choice for time out. It's got it all! The lake, play area, walks and all the wildlife!
I love your photos; they are always so imaginative. The first beach one and the one from Roath Park are fantastic.