Moments - Sand, sun, sticks, sea & spindle weed

-Looking down on the magic beach and a twist of tree bark.
-Boy's gotta have a stick. Or rather, many sticks.
-Just arrived at the beach and running down to the water.
-Poppet is into tippy-toes at the moment. I think she looks like she's about to start doing the Charleston!
-Spindle-weed. We thought it looked amazing.
-Poppet and I pretending to nap on one of the hot days, our hands resting on the bump that is Littlest. (Up to week 27 now!)

I think we've officially started back into 'the routine'. My Beloved and I woke at 4am this morning to get him ready for the two hour commute into the city for his first big-city hospital rotation. While I'm looking forward to hearing all about it... four am. I might not wake up with him every morning.
It's nearly six so not long now and it'll be time to start getting the wee one ready for his first full week of school - his first day was Friday, he's getting so big…
But in the meantime, memories of lazy mornings meandering around before bundling into the car heading for sand and sea down bone-rattling clay paths.

Joining with the lovely Em of The Beetle Shack for stills from our week.

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- My Poppet, walking down the boat ramp.
-My Sprocket, out of the sea, covered in sand and playing with sticks. There is no better toy than a big stick.

To wring the last drop out of the holidays before everything goes back to normal on Monday, we decided to go to a special beach. The magic beach. The beach that Alison Lester based her beautiful picture book Magic Beach on. It's called Walkerville and it's about a two hour drive from us, so it was a bit of a long day trip, but absolutely stunning. The sky was high and blue, the water warm and we jumped waves holding out little limpets, lolled in the shallows, looked for sand hoppers and played with sticks and spindle weed It was blissful and we hope to return soon.

Joining with the lovely Jodi of Practicing Simplicity for a portrait of my children once a week, every week in 2014.