Favourite Photo Friday - 19/6/15

A young lady is turning 4 in just a few short days...... it seems like just the other day I was waddling around and thinking she would never come out to meet us!  This weeks photo Friday, is 5 of my (many) favourite Astrid pics.  One from each of the last four years!

2011 - 2 days old

Astrid had just had her first bath and was looking at her Dad all wide-eyed and cute....

D80 with Nikon 50mm f1.8
ISO 400 focal length 50mm

Exposure: 1/30 @ f3.2

2012 - 8 months old

Astrid enjoying the last of the Summer sunshine in the garden.......

D80 with Tamron 90mm f2.8 macro

ISO 125 focal length 90mm

Exposure: 1/200 @ f3.2

2013 - 22 months old

Astrid and Anto enjoying a walk around the Yarra in Melbourne.......

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8

ISO 400 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/1250 @ f3.2

2014 - 2 years 11 months old

Astrid participating in one of her favourite activities - jumping in muddy puddles!

D7000 with Nikon 35mm f1.8

ISO 100 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/1000 @ f2.8

2015 - 3 years 9 months old

Astrid enjoying a post dinner play on the beach in Khao Lak, Thailand........

D7000 with Nikon 35-70mm f2.8

ISO 160 focal length 35mm

Exposure: 1/100 @ f5.6

Jumping in muddy puddles.......

Peppa Pig has a lot to answer for, but I do try to be the fun mum at least some of the time so what is a bit of washing for some toddler fun? After a few rainy days, Astrid and I took the alpacas out for their daily walk, and thought we might try for some puddle jumping fun.  Astrid was duly equipped with gumboots and her rain coat and we went off in search of muddy adventures.

Not far from our house we found a puddle...... admittedly it was only a small one, and apparently not nearly muddy enough for Miss Astrid but it was a good start!

So we headed down to the underpass near our house where she was happy to pose for some cute shots.

   

Enough delaying though, there were puddles that needed to be jumped in! Luckily I knew where there were likely to be some really nice and muddy ones. Sure enough we found some.  Astrid was ecstatic with the mud, glorious mud....

 

After several minutes of puddle jumping we located some really big and deep ones. I resigned myself to lots of wet clothes and water-logged boots and let her loose.

Toddler + mud = fun!  The alpacas on the other hand are a bit precious and don't like to get their feet wet.  They looked on as Astrid splashed mud everywhere, careful not to get caught in the crossfire. They lapped up the sunshine to dry out their poor bedraggled fleece.

Once we ran out of suitably muddy puddles to jump in, it was time to run, jump and skip in the afternoon sunshine....... until the cold wet feet got the better of her and it was time to go home and warm up!

An afternoon of cheap fun, lots of cute photos and I managed to get them all while walking two large, wet and soggy, mud-fearing alpacas........ and not get any mud on the camera!