"I woke up like this"

Eliza's personality has been shining through this season and she's the biggest trickster going. Everything she does is to make you laugh and this week was no different. I could hear her awake in her room and I go in and there she is already in her dressing gown with a pair of trousers on her head covering her eyes and she just says "morning!". I had to run down and grab my phone to capture it on camera. She then refused to take the trousers off and ended up eating breakfast with them still on her head but with her eyes uncovered. She loves laughter and will do things like run and bounce herself off the edge of the sofa so she falls down repeatedly for 10 minutes just because you laugh at each and every time. My favourite one is when she emptys the Lego out and comes walking into the kitchen with a tubtrug on her head and you can only just see her legs at the bottom. Cassidy loves her doing this too and luckily there's two tubtrugs in the lounge so they will often shuffle around together looking like brightly coloured Daleks. It's really refreshing to see how much excitement and joy they get from simple jokes like this. The weather has been fantastic again so we've spent lots of time in the garden and out and about this week. Cassidy was a little envious of our Peel Forest trip that we took while she was at preschool so we went back there all together this weekend. The girls loved seeing all the deer through the fence that came over curiously as we pulled alongside them. We still had some sponge left from the disaster birthday cake making so Cassidy and I made a rather impressive trifle. Turns out neither of the girls were that keen on trifle so it looks like Bruce and Candy will be eating most of it! The rest of the tiny bits of sponge went to the chickens who were rather pleased by this. We also made some not very gingery gingerbread for the shed which Cass decorated beautifully with icing and sugar stars. On Wednesday all the farm went out for dinner with the owner Dave. He paid for the whole of our farm and the staff from the farm across the road to have drinks and dinner as a thank you for all our hard work this season. We've still got calves to come so we all guessed a day for when the last calf will be born. I think it's an actual bet but I'm not too sure. We went to a really amazing restaurant and Nick and I were very impressed with our lamb shoulder and pork belly meals. We shared a cheese bread fondue with Bruce for starter because it was just too filling for two people and a chocolate three ways desert between us two at the end. It was a beautiful meal with lovely people and although it meant we had quite a late night it was nice to get out and socialise with not only our farm but new people as well.Lue lisää