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There's something about the back of the baby bird's head and her little curls that I find totally irresistable...and although this picture doesn't really capture it I hope you can see how beautiful it looked glowing in the late afternoon sun as she played totally absorbed in the sand..



Today was a really beautiful day - the seasons really felt like they've changed (although it's probably a false hope living in the uk!). The midwife had to cancel her appointment - understandably as she had another client who was in the second stage of labour and needed her much more! It was a bit of a shame though as I'm going away next week again and this week is hectic so I guess I will have to wait a fortnight between visits which feels a bit long. My fault though for being so unavailable...unless she can come one evening. Anyway, the point was - because she wasn't coming the baby bird and I were unexpectedly free to do as we pleased all afternoon so we went to the farm again (where she held the little chick in her fairy costume last time). It was fantastic - every animal had babies it seemed so we saw the piglets feeding and talked about where they got their milk from, and the lambs bleating and talked about how babies can be noisy and a bit annoying but they're lovely really....do you see what I was doing?! Trying to help the baby bird prepare a bit for her new sibling by discussing what baby creatures do. Very timely. We also saw a lamb being born but she was totally disinterested! I, however, watched and learnt!! One thing I didn't get though - everywhere there were posters saying that pregnant women shouldn't touch the lambs or sheep. Why? am going to google it in a minute - am fascinated. And the baby bird had her first donkey ride which as you can see she took extremely seriously!