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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