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For several years I have been wanting to grow more fruit, veg and herbs in the garden.  We always seem to get the timings wrong and before we know it winter arrives.  Determined not to miss out again this year I planned to make a start on our herb garden this weekend.  It was almost as if Piccolo knew of my plans, as in the post arrived some seeds!  


Using the special Piccolo pencil, which contains rosemary seeds in the base, my youngest practised her writing by writing the labels for our pots.


The girls then got to work filling up their plant pots with compost.


We planted a variety of different herbs and the girls were amazed at the different shapes, sizes and colours of all the seeds.  They started tearing open the packets very carefully just in case the seeds inside were very small. 


Our seeds [and pencil] were all carefully planted and watered, before placing in a warm sunny place waiting for them to grow.


My eldest has already declared she is going to be making mint chocolate, and I cannot wait to use fresh herbs in my cooking too!

This day I love watching them grow

Piccolo sent a packet of seeds and the pencil but did not request a post.  I purchased everything else other than 1 packet of seeds! 


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The girls are showing a real interest in the minute in growing plants.  They were given a bag of seeds and are desperate to plant them.  This curiosity has expanded into how do plants grow, and we have been having fun exploring this.

A recent delivery of a rainy pot from Red Candy, has allowed us to explore this further.


We chose a blue pot for our rainy pot, but there are other colours available.  Everything needed [except soil, seeds and water] are included in the box and there is minimal assembly. 


The rainy pot can be hung on the wall or stood on its own.

We decided to do something a little fun for Easter.  The girls know that for a plant to grow it needs a substance like soil to grow in.  However as this was a magic Easter plant we needed some flour. 


Once full it was then time to plant our special Easter seed [small chocolate egg for us big people].


For a plant to grow it needs water and our special cloud helped us with this.  The cloud takes a maximum of 80ml of water.


The special rainy pot then casts its magic and rains on our plant, as plants need water to grow


The girls left their special Easter plant out over night for the Easter bunny to wave his magic.  Next morning when the girls woke up


Our Rainy pot had grown a special Easter treat!

The girls were incredibly impressed and are now really eager to plant flowers in our Rainy pot!

Thanks to Red candy for sending us a rainy pot for this post.  All words are my own opinion. 


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Day 2 without the Dummy

Last night my youngest slept through, something she has never really done before.  She woke up at 6.30am, happy and smiling.  She came and gave me a cuddle as usual and we went for breakfast.  It was then she asked for her dummy.  I said all gone, showed her the tub where they used to be was empty and she proceeded to carry on as normal.  That was the only request all day, no mention for it at bed either.

I cannot believe how much my youngest chatters away.  She has never done this before, I think now the dummy has gone she is trying new words and sounds.  Her sentence structure is amazing, something else new she has started to do.  Her favourite phrase these past two days has been 'I don't know'.  The thing I love, now that she has not got that dummy in, is I can see her beautiful smile.  

We have had rather a busy day today.  The girls replanted their sunflowers as they had out grown their little pots.

Big sunflowersput in the soil


watering sunflowersstand up sunflowers





I then made the girls lunch.  Yes I cut out the cheese shapes myself.

fun themed lunch

Before we headed out to walk the dog.  What started out as a nice walk with the dog, soon turned into some rainy muddy fun!  Our dog has just figured out how to swim, and takes every opportunity to show off his new skill.  The girls decided to follow.

sister exploringstanding in the stream

Before joining in with digging a hole.  

digging with the dog

All this digging and swimming led to one thing, wet feet!  

very wet feet

J new found confidence with water has also led him to another new discovery, he can fish!

J fishing

Without that dummy in her mouth my youngest made an attempt at dandelion clocks, something she had never done before.

Readyblowoh dear

It might not have been a very successful attempt, but it was so lovely watching her try, followed by her chatting away.  We returned back to the car to go home, both girls took great pleasure in taking off their boots and socks so they could warm their feet in the sun coming through the window.

Warming wet feet

This day I love warming wet feet.


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My name is Leyla, also known as Mum to my 3 humans and dog Mum to J. I have a passion for the outdoors and love to run. I can often be found off road exploring the trails and fells and covering distances all the way up to 50 miles. As a family we love travelling and discovering new adventures, as I try and run around the world!

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