Yes this is as bad as the title suggests! For our first "daddy-daughter" Monday of the year I wanted us to do a little gardening together.
When it came to us doing some gardening however we hit upon a snag.
This is the first time she's been able to get "about" outside, she's not walking yet (although not far off I recon!) but she's crawling really well and into everything! The trouble is she's a small baby and when we've taken her to get some shoes and wellies (wellies are much more important I feel!) they've said her little feet are too small and sent us away so she can grow some more. She's only just a baby size 2 so they had nothing in stock.
Well I didn't want to disappoint her (and I was fairly sure we were due no visitors) so I took a different approach to the problem.
Plastic bags.
Sandwich bags to be precise.
Put on with sellotape.
If I'm honest it's not my proudest moment as a parent but she didn't seem to mind.
Anyway, outside tidying up my front boarders my "crawling baby whose into everything" didn't move an inch, just sat there chatting to me as I cut down some old roses!
Must go on ebay tonight!
If you get her some all in one plastic coveralls, and add the plastic bags, she will be nice and cosy. Try googling Muddy Faces and look at their range of forest school clothing - good value and will keep her nice and dry. Or, ski salopettes might be available in very small? I had some tiny ones but charity shopped them just before Christmas - wish I had thought and I would have kept them for you!
ReplyDeleteAnd I forgot to add - she looks absolutely beautiful and very happy ;-)
DeleteThanks for the names of the company we'll check them out. Mind you I can't believe such a small pair of welies can cost so much! Thanks for the comment
DeleteI've done that before.
ReplyDeleteWhen my daughter was about that age my wife had to go back to work. So I carried here everywhere strapped to my chest. Sometimes with ear protection on her. Obviously I did not split wood or weld or anything like that but driving tractor (with a cab) and doing light mechanical work.
Now she refuses to ride with me as she has "reached that age." But, I think we had a good time while it lasted. I should not have done any singing whilst she was in the cab. Think that may have ruined things.
Other farmers made fun of me for the Princess Barbie backpack in the back window of the tractor. Once we found a abandoned barbie doll in a field I was planting. We made clothes out of Duct Tape. Later the other farmers got quite a laugh out of the Duct Tape barbie in my tractor.
Oh well... My rows were not real straight that day but I had a happy child.
But, as my daughter has told me on several occasions, I talk to much...
That sounds like a great way to spend time with your child! I hope I can fill Evalyns early childhood with memories like that then I'll be happy (and then as she grows up I want to spend a large amount of my time embaresing her!).
DeleteNever too young for gardening...and you never know...the ziplock wellies may catch on!
ReplyDeleteJane x
Not sure they'll catch on but she's got a whole spring and summer of gardening ahead of her! I'm thinking maybe I should build a sand pit in the veg garden to keep us both happy!
DeleteOhh I had to laugh looking at your gorgeous little girl in her plastic bags. When we first moved into this house (14 years ago) my son was only a toddler and I put plastic bags on his feet to keep them clean while I was gardening. It was a bare block of land so we spent quite some time out there establishing a garden. He loved it and I got some much needed gardening time. Today, with heatwave conditions Australia is experiencing, I'm so glad for the time I spent out there planting trees.
ReplyDeleteYeah it doesn't sound good in Oz at the moment hoe things get better for you guys. My veg garden is on what was grass, trouble is it keep trying to come back. I'm hoping that we (my little girl and me) can get on top of it this year!
DeleteAdorable! How lucky you both are to be able to share time together. If only every child could grow up in a garden.
ReplyDeleteShe aloud in the house as well! I'm going to make sure that we both spend lots of time out there together this year. When she knows her own mind she might not want to so I'll make the most of the time when she can't say no!
DeleteI would do the same but then put an old sock over the plastic bag. That way my kids had dry feet but a little traction for crawling and later walking.
ReplyDeleteSocks over the top sound a good idea, although she can't keep one pair on for more than two minutes so I don't know how long two pairs will last.
DeleteTotally adorable and utterly practical.
ReplyDeleteSue xx
Thanks, really practical if I use the bags for my sandwiches the next day!
DeleteCute!
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! Gosh, in a pinch that's very clever. She is absolutely adorable, no doubt about that.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much.
DeleteWhat a cutie! I've used larger plastic bags upon discovering a hole in my boot and with miles to go before i could get a new, nonleaky pair.
ReplyDeleteGreat so long as it doesn't make your foot sweat!
DeleteOh my - I've been known to put plastic bags over MY shoes and have, now and then, worn a trash-bag poncho! LOL Your daughter looks adorable in her little baggies.
ReplyDeleteI wore a trash-bag ponch at a music festival one year. The hight of fashion!
DeleteI have got me some telco carrier bags to wear tomorrow...I am going to somewhere nice Sunday so I will don my waitrose bags
ReplyDeleteI always feel very posh when I take my lunch into work in a waitrose bag. I've no idea where we get these bags from though (if I shopped in waitrose we could probably buy her some wellies!)
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ReplyDeleteIn the US, bags over shoes is common in winter where we don't get snow and are not prepared. Even adults use bags on their feet in a pinch. I think this IS one of your finer moments as a parent. You gave her what she needed.
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