Yep they are with me ;)

All sky has been saying for weeks is how if she just had a purple
ladder she could ..... Well now she does and she is in love with it.
Life is good when you have a purple ladder

My purple ladder

Purple ladder

the best advice so far:

"Motherhood is about excepting the limitation of time and energy which stretch beyond you, even though sometimes it feels like they could consume you. Search for and hold onto your own true self. If you loss that what kind of a mother can you be. Things are always changing no matter how much you might want things to stay the same. You could take a picture of your child every single day and every single day they would just be getting older. That's a fact, a heartbreaking fact, but still a fact. So seize your days and dwell in them fully. Look to your child because they know how to inhabit brief periods of time with extreme passion and for nothing more really than the sake of those moments. They can help you remember that if you only slow down and let them. Feel fortunate, because chances are good you actually might be!"