At the start of every new season I think I declare it my favourite and I think it is seeing the world through a child's eyes that allows it. Whilst summer meant long days out, dinner at the beach, bare foot and six weeks of having all four along, Autumn has so much colour and charm. Cosy nights in, hot chocolate, not having to wash my hair so much because it is hat weather and Halloween.
We have planned a few quiet weekends to relax as the transition back to school (and the multiple school runs) seems to be tiring for us all but we still need to get out and run off the energy so we visited our favourite park this weekend to hunt for conkers, play cops and robbers (the boys new favourite game) and watch the squirrels.
It was nearly a year ago that I took some photos of them all in this same place with a blog post titled ' I think we are done' and looking back at it I can see firstly how much they have all grown, especially Finn and secondly how much I still believe what I wrote. We no longer have cribs or cots, the nappies have gone other than a night nappy for Cora and she isn't in the pushchair often anymore. This next stage is certainly no less exhausting than the newborn one but it is exciting and full of promise.
On our visit to the park this weekend the children all played so independently. The boys ran around playing, Cora climbed and conquered, they hunted, they chatted and I know they appreciated our company, but they didn't need us in the same ways they did even a year ago.
Four is our number and a year after I initially wrote it, I am still definitely done.
I want to continue to photograph and document the ordinary days as a family of six and I love these photos as they are exactly that. It was a simple day, we went to the park, ran around for a few hours and then went home. Perfectly normal, perfectly us.
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| Taken by Dylan! |
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