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9/52
A silly one this week.Our little family is feeling much better than we were, but still not 100%.
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10/52
If there were ever any doubts about Jamie's paternity...... I am declaring them quashed.
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11/52
Or, Mother's Day 2016.Steve has no great tradition of Mother's Day observance. A phone call or text message, perhaps. In my family, I usually send my mum a card and gift in the "box of chocolates"...
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12/52
This week's picture makes me smile every time I see it.It's the wide eyes, the happy surprised mouth, the blur of hands, and above all else, the confidence with which Jamie now enjoys tummy time,...
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13/52
Late again - I thought, oh, Steve will be here for the four day bank holiday weekend, and then Steve was here for the four day bank holiday weekend and we were Doing Things and I didn't get as far as...
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14/52
Well, from sitting in the high chair, we've moved along to our first tastes of food.This is sweet potato.Food is apparently a hit for Jamie, although more as an art material than as nourishment at this...
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15/52
On time this week!Here's the picture...It's remarkable that he's smiling so much, because this is the week that we saw a little white dot emerging.Forgive the funny angle, it's more difficult than you...
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16/52
Last week's tooth seems to have subsided - apparently this is a Thing and normal. So, Jamie had to cast about for a new milestone:It might not look like much, but if you will observe the space devoid...
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On Practicalities
In the comments a couple of weeks ago was the following query:"I wondered if sometime you might be able to write something about some of the practical issues around looking after a baby when you're...
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17/52
This week's picture speaks for itself.Jamie is generally speaking quite a happy child. We're getting a lot of these enormous gummy grins at the moment and we're loving each and every one.
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18/52
This week's photo is of Jamie having a good post-reading chew on The Very Hungry Caterpillar.The reason it's been chosen as this week's photo is because this week, Jamie started to get that bit more...
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19/52
Efforts to introduce Jamie to "solid foods" - a term which at this stage pretty much means anything more solid than milk - are continuing.In this picture Jamie is wearing an Ella's Kitchen Spinach,...
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Further to my last post about some of the practicalities of disabled parenting, the big question seems to be about managing fatigue.It must be said that Jamie is an astonishingly "good" baby. Still a...
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20/52
This week's picture is of Jamie relaxing in his tent.The tent was supposed to be the next phase after he grew out of the downstairs moses basket. We wanted somewhere safe for him to nap during the day,...
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21/52
Slightly late again, this time for reasons of choosing and cropping the favourite photo from a shoot which only took place on Saturday. Because Saturday was our fifth wedding anniversary, and one of...
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22/52
Seven weeks ago I was all excited about the first glimpse of a tooth in Jamie's mouth. Then a day or two later the sharp white dot vanished, the teething symptoms subsided, and I felt a bit silly.Which...
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23/52
This week's photo was taken at Batsford Arboretum, where we went on the basis that Jamie likes trees. It was a really idyllic family afternoon out.Yep, Jamie is mobile. It's still not quite a full...
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24/52
Almost half way, and this week's picture echoes the picture from Week One.Same bed, same pillow, same baby. But! I love looking at the two pictures and seeing just so many similarities and so many...
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25/52
With Father's Day tomorrow it seems appropriate that this week's picture is Jamie and Daddy.We had a sling consultation as a family when Jamie was just one week old. I ended up with the ring sling, and...
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Optimistically, 1/52
For quite some time now I've been enjoying Carie's 52 Project photos - one photo a week of each of her children. She's doing it again this year and asked if anyone else wanted to join in.Truth be told,...
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