Chez Spud

Four today and so grown up with glimpses of the attitude to match. It’s still a surprise to me that we’ve been allowed to grow and nurture not one but TWO human beings, and thus far we’ve done a reasonable job of it…haven’t mislaid either of them, haven’t broken them or forgotten to change their batteries etc. When I told MrSpud I was expecting Bertie he looked rather alarmed and said, ‘But we can’t have a BABY. We can’t even get our cat in a box and get it to the vets. We’ll probably leave it places’. Four years down and we’ve never left either of them ‘places’…but I will concede that we still can’t get that damn cat in a box.

We gave him a ‘big boys’ bike’ for his birthday, which he’s been keen on for a long time. He’s had a balance bike for a couple of years and can whizz around on it at huge speed. We thought he might be able to manage the ‘big bike’ without the need of stabilisers so we gave it a shot. Success! He could, indeed, ride it without MrSpud doing that traditional rite of passage back breaking holding-on-to-back-of-bike-seat thing. But as soon as he realised he threw a wobbler and refused to get back on the bike unless we put the stabilisers on. We refused to put the stabilisers on. He pleaded, we stood firm, it went on for a while…

Earlier in the day he had his first horse riding lesson. I wasn’t sure how that would go and I was thrilled to see him take it all in his stride, confidently riding no handed and trotting even. He can be rather cautious by nature but he breezed through his lesson. Which made ‘stabilisergate’ all the more surprising. Here he is sniffing the pony’s mane, a preparation for jumping apparently?

I will confess to a little lump in my throat, watching my ‘baby’ trotting around and screaming with laughter…here he is newly born…

On his first birthday, just had his first taste of chocolate and not looking overly impressed…

On his second birthday

And third (photo credit, Lyanne Wylde)

We’ve come a long way baby, Happy Birthday xxx

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