Lydia

Happy Birthday Lydia!

One year ago today, this happened: Today, my little Lydia turns one. She is walking all the time now, and developing at a super fast rate. Lydia is definitely a toddler these days, and my baby years are over. Lydia is starting to show signs of a cheeky sense of humour, has an enthusiastic love …

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Birthday preparations

Lydia’s first birthday tomorrow, and I have been planning a quiet celebration here in Cornwall. James has been carefully saving a few precious days of holiday and so he has managed to book tomorrow & Friday off work, and is travelling down here after work tonight! I’m so pleased, as I would have been very …

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Contemplations

As Lydia’s first birthday draws closer, I find myself thinking back to the day she was born, and acknowledging the terror and confusion of those moments after it all started to go wrong after her birth, in a way that I don’t think I have done before. In the days and weeks after Lydia was …

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My Sunday Photo – Slipper flipping!

I posted recently about Georgie’s burgeoning interest in taking photos, and so it’s no real surprise that she is already taking over a My Sunday Photo post! This photo was taken by Georgie yesterday morning, as she watched and laughed at Grandad being silly – Dad was flipping his slipper up and catching it, before putting it back on and repeating the trick.

Dad slipper flipping

I think it’s quite a good photo, complete with motion blur on the flipping foot, and the flying slipper at the top of the shot!

The timing was probably quite accidental, but the framing of her Grandad was very deliberate; Dad and I were teaching Georgie how to hold the camera so she could see the screen and press the shutter button at the same time, while carrying it around. She was concentrating very hard on pointing the camera in the right direction before pressing the button!

Georgie taking the photo

In the meantime, Lydia was fascinated by Grandad’s slipper antics…

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Lydia at 11 months

Our baby girl turns 11 months old today. She is nearly one already, that seems mad! Lately, Lydia has been changing and growing at a rapid rate. In the last month, she has had a massive growth spurt, getting taller by a couple of inches at least, and eating and feeding absolutely loads. Lydia has …

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Soft play Sunday

On Sunday James and I decided to take the kids out for a few hours, so that we could spend a bit of time together, just the four of us before he headed back to the Midlands on Monday morning. It had the added advantage of giving Mum & Dad some peace for a bit …

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It’s Daddy!

James is currently visiting for the weekend, arriving after bedtime on Friday evening. Lydia just about saw him for a quick cuddle before heading up to bed, but Georgie’s first glimpse of him was this morning when she woke up, and her morning greeting was a very excited… “It’s Daddy!” Both our little girls are …

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Settling into routine

We have been staying with my parents for four weeks now, and with the exception of Christmas week, we have been settling into a fairly easy going yet structured routine. Up around 7am in the morning, Lydia comes into my bed for milk & snuggles, while Georgie, sometimes without even a “hello” for her Mummy, …

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