Tonight Andy and I sat, drinking a bottle of cheap bubbles and talked about Louie like we usually end up doing once he has gone to bed (obsessive much?).  Also about how lucky we are.  Our situation this year has been amazing, both at home all day with our boy - Andy working in his office but able to share in so many...

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* Not exactly a lie but you are actually almost 10 months old.  The days are flying by. You crawl!  It happened so quickly, about three weeks ago you started caterpillar crawling...push up onto your knees, move hands forward, drop down onto tummy.  Repeat.  Then a few weeks ago you just got it...and you are off.  You've discovered which door Dad is hidden...

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8 Months. 7 teeth (soon to be 8), 3 big solid meals a day, 2 semi-ok sleeps during the day, 12 hours sleep at night, 2 twinkling, shining eyes, at least a dozen catch phrases (tatatata, brrruum brrruum, bubububub, dadaaaa etc), 2 strong little legs that DO NOT stop kicking and pushing and 1 little round tummy.  You are a squealing, wriggling, busy,...

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You are a toothy little monster now, 5 proper teeth out and one just breaking the surface.  It's been a tough month or so with all that action in your mouth...you have been unbelievable brave, trying to smile through the pain but unable to stop the grizzles from escaping. But yay!  Today you seem happier and I think we have a respite from...

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Lately the days have been getting warmer, we are spending more time outside in our new yard and you love it.  I can leave you on your rug and go pull up weeds for quite a long time and you just go into a dream state, watching the trees and the clouds, studying the grass, touching daisies and just thinking about everything.  You...

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  "All babies are different", "They get there in their own time", "You'll wish he wasn't rolling/walking/crawling when he does it".  With almost every developmental milestone I couldn't really care less when Louie does it, because it's true, he'll get there.  But I couldn't help it, I was really concerned he hadn't laughed.  Just a few days shy of six months and he...

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And why should I?  You're criminally cute.  Bathtime  /  BFF  /  Poseurs  /  Teething  /  Favourite toy ever  /  Tummy time  /  Andy' Birthday cake  /  Birthday double yolkers for Andy and Louie!  (I ate Louie's...) ...

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I see myself in Louie, in his face, his little concentrated scowl, his flickering quizzical eyes.  But then I think it's actually you I'm seeing and that I'm just so familiar with your face that I start to recognize those things as mine.  In any case, everybody says he is a mini you and I'm so glad. ...

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Happy six month birthday Louie my boy.  You have grown up with ease and grace, and now, so must I.  It is time to shake off First Time Mother's Syndrome. From here on in I'll try: *  to let you be grizzly/wriggly/grumpy/quiet without Googling "my baby is grizzly/wriggly/grumpy/quiet" *  not to photograph every little thing you do all the time and instead; *...

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I looked down into Louie's sleeping face tonight, holding him for the 20minute upright time after his bedtime feed (the rules, the rules!) and suddenly I thought back to the night you and I re-met up in Nepal.  We went to a bar in Kathmandu, just the two of us, Kate stayed behind.  We sat and drank cheap Nepalese Whiskey and talked and...

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Shit!  We bought a house!  We move next weekend!  Argggggh, so much crap to pack in so little time! I tried to convince Andy that now was a good time to declare ourselves minimalists but he saw right through that attempt to wheedle out of packing.  Seeya Auckland! ...

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Mum and I in Santorini As well as Mothers Day it was my mum's 60th Birthday on Sunday so I had reasons aplenty to celebrate the aceness that is my ma.  I made her a book entitled '60 Things I Love About You Mum (and a few that drive me crazy)', here are a few of those things: 1. That you’ll sit for...

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Happy birthday Louie!  Today you officially graduate into the world as a three month old, you are no longer a sleeping, shitting, crying grub...now you are sleeping, shitting, crying infant!  Although to be fair, you do keep the crying to a minimum, thank you my happy boy. You LOVE books, it's hilarious, you seem to read along with me and laugh at the...

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When I was around 16 weeks pregnant I joined a free, online parenting community to receive the email updates telling me about the development of my unborn child ("your baby is now the size of a cantaloupe" etc).  I also browsed the members forum, reading about other mums expecting in February 2012.  Soon I was mildly engrossed in these strangers pregnancies, 'Lazy_Lou's' breach...

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Your first sleep in your cot! You slept for five hours! Long may it continue little man! *  it didn't. ...

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We've been looking at houses to buy FOREVER!  We are very annoying people.  We talk about our decision making with all of our friends and family, outlining the pros, the cons, asking for their considered opinion and then the next time we meet we have a whole other idea!  Our nearest and dearest know now that when we exclaim "We're moving to Bluff!"...

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You're loving showers with your dad, you don't even grizzle when he puts your whole head under the water.  And so far no poo-splosions in there!  Although secretly, I'd kind of love it if you did. You have to have your towel heated or you complain bitterly to management.  And a nice apricot oil massage is appreciated.  You detest getting dressed,  you are...

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Excuse the smug post but geeeez I'm ridiculously lucky.  Last week I decided to take Louie 'home' to mum and dad's for four days to catch up and have a rest.  It's a blessing to stay with your parents when you've got a wee one, home cooked meals, more hands to help with bathing/dressing/soothing, the reminder that you're still someone else's baby.  But...

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