Rascal has always been quite a neat child. She makes a small amount of mess when eating and playing but nothing to write about. Her birthday cake smash, for example, consisted of her making dainty little pinches at the icing and eating it one pinch at a time. So I guess, although she is outside sometimes, she doesn't have a lot to do with dirt. 

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Our family has just moved house to a newly built house. It is lovely, and, as we designed it, exactly what we wanted. So there have been a few weeks of hectic moving followed by a few weeks of finding a spot for everything, which hasn't concluded yet. In the last week, though, we have tried to make a garden out of our dirt. And, quite frankly, we don't care if we never see a piece of dirt again!

Rascal has had several opportunities to be involved in the dirt. The first time I intentionally dressed her in dark coloured clothes and then let her loose with a pile of top soil. She wasn't that interested in the top soil, only the road. Luckily we live in a small court which isn't a through road, but I couldn't believe that she wasn't interested! I guess she's just not a messy child. After a few minutes she played in it a bit but preferred the water and grass and other things to play with. 

Because of all our landscaping, the house has become a dust zone. She loves this and will crawl along through the 1mm dust layer on the floor, leaving her tracks everywhere she goes. She plays with the dust, eats the dust and loves to help me try to vacuum the dust (which I have given up on until this is all finished). So it appears she likes dust, not dirt. I can't wait til it's all over and dirt and dust don't rule our lives anymore! 

Libby :)



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