You turned 6 months old this week and decided to mark the occasion by sitting on your own. I was fastening a button on your dungarees as you sat trying to grab your toes, when I realised how steady you were. I put some cushions around you and gradually eased away – will you stay […]
parenting
Pieces of us
‘He takes after his father’. I realised recently that I often utter these words about you. Usually to do with the fact that I think you’re going to be tall like James (who, if you ask, will always say he is 6 foot 3 and a half). I also say it when you beam at the women […]
Happy mother’s day
It was a day like so many others – spilling over with smiles. Your beaming grin lit up the morning (the loveliest way for the day to begin). A day of holding you close, stealing kisses while you laugh as you bounce upon my knee, and watching as you watch the world around you, wondering what […]
The worrier
‘I think I’m going to combust with worry’, I said to a friend recently. I’m a worrier by nature but having a baby has taken my level of worrying to an entirely new level. Whilst in the middle of worrying about one thing, I hop right on over to the next. Since you were born […]
In the blink of an eye
You are fifteen weeks old. Fifteen weeks since you arrived in the world, wearing an awe-struck expression that most probably mirrored my own. Fifteen weeks of slowly learning how to read you; interpreting your different cries, trying to work out how to help you fall asleep, discovering what will make you smile. Fifteen weeks of […]