Our back garden area might not be very big, but to Oscar it is a wonderland of things to explore and discover. It’s a great perspective shift to spend time with a toddler, particularly during times like this when everything seems so big and impossible to understand. Toddlers don’t know what is happening outside the door, they don’t know the worry and the anxiety and the concerns. All they know is what is right in front of them. They are entirely in the present, driven by their own need for adventure and their eagerness to learn.
So these days instead of going out to see friends or do activities with other people, instead of going to playgrounds or catching the train or wandering around the shops, we spend our mornings on the deck watching the sun rise over the fence. Oscar looks at all the plants and brings me pebbles and rocks he has found in lots of different shapes and sizes. He walks his walker across the decking, relishing the noise it makes on the wood. I drink my coffee and hang washing and let everything go really, really slow because that’s just the season we’re in right now, and that’s ok as well.
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