We’ve always known that babies are continually changing and in fits and starts, sometimes letting you rest on your laurels and sometimes requiring whole new management techniques. It is apparent to us that we’re just entering one of the latter types of changes. If you look really closely at the middle of his [...]
Today Jonathan is 37 weeks and 4 days old. Not a particularly significant milestone to anyone except us I suppose. But we know that Jonathan’s (thoretical) gestation period was 37 weeks and 4 days!
So as of today, he has been out here in the world for as long as he was [...]
Last Wednesday was our tenth and final lesson in the WaterBabies “Beginners” series. And as a rare treat, Tom had taken a day off work and was along to watch, provide an extra pair of hands, and get some footage for us. (And to take Mommy for lunch afterwards! )
As far as [...]
It’s been a little while since I had a chance to add any entries here… Life has been a bit of a whirlwind operation lately.
On the DIY front, I am pleased to report that the wall I started on in the bathroom is now a rather patchy shade of blue-white all over. [...]
Witness our bathroom wall and its long-standing, dislikeable shade of blue. Look harder and you’ll see the efforts of the first two weeks of my bathroom wall painting project…
Week 1, session 1: Wall (just that one) gets a thorough cleaning while Jon plays in the hall.
Week 2, session 2: Postponed several times and cut [...]
Initially, Friday morning didn’t have much to distinguish it from any other day. I surfaced just before 05h00, when Jonathan began to make his first little noises as he amused himself in the dark.
From a half-asleep state, I heard Tom pad off to close Jon’s bedroom door and then come back to bed. What [...]
