Living Arrows 2021 – Week 1 – Mummascribbles

I have seen the lovely Donna from What The Redhead Said host the Living Arrows linky for many, many years now, but I have never gotten around to joining in. The idea of it is to focus on a photo/or photos from the previous week that catches a moment of childhood. I love the idea of focusing on a minimal amount of photos and during this very tricky time, it’ll be lovely to look back on (assuming I manage to find photos to use each week!).

This week I am sharing a photo of each of them, and they are both from our weekend trip to the forest. I say trip – it is just up the road from us but does involve a short car journey. We were in Tier 4 at the time so I was keeping journeys minimal and we remained within the same borough, but we completely needed a change of scenery from the walkable Country Park that they have got so bored of.

Oscar does a very good job with his little legs on our walks but he does struggle a bit when they start getting tired. The minute he sees a decent bench or log to sit on, he asks if he can have a little rest, so I thought this week’s photo of him should be a reflection of that (we do a lot of walks now!). I often look at Zach and think, if only Oscar could happily walk the distances that he can walk, but I remind myself that one day he will, and on that day I know I shall be looking back and wishing that he had those little legs again because he is getting too big, too quickly!

This week’s photo of Zach is the result of me asking him to kick a bunch of leaves for a photo! A) He kicked them at me which gives you a sense of his jokey behaviour, and B) I can’t help but look at this photo and notice how long his legs are, and generally how big he is. He is 8 now but is quite a tall 8. He has long legs that he often has no control over, and he is only about a foot shorter than me which is pretty scary. It felt weird when I filled in this year’s calendar and wrote that he was going to be 9. I can’t wait to see him grow and develop this year throughout the craziness that is happening right now.

This trip to the woods was just a day before we went back into full national lockdown. None of us had any clue as to how our freedoms would be limited once again, and I am so glad that they were able to run free in the forest.