To our lovely little boy.
This has been a year of so many changes in all of our lives, I can only look back now in wonder at your development over these brief 12 months, and how each day passing developed us too.
Throughout it all, it has been a joy watching your sunny personality develop and [...]
Next week Monday, we are off on a little family holiday — our first time going away alone as a family, as opposed to going to stay with friends or relatives.
For this trip, we’re staying in a “baby-friendly” B&B on the Isle of Wight; very much unexplored territory for all of us. It’s not [...]
It’s amazing how few of the things that will amuse a not-quite-one-year-old boy can be classified as “toys”.
As I write this, Jonathan has discovered a large sheet of clear plastic – a bit like the material used for overhead projection transparencies – and he is jerking at it vigorously with both hands making the wonderful [...]
Jon has lots of fun in the bath these days with his new rolling abilities. Turning over and skidding back and forward on his tummy is a current favourite.
He is also learning the valuable lesson that bath water can be sipped but not breathed! The main parental challenge in [...]
Around Christmas time, we reached the conclusion that we could not practically continue to go on holidays as a family without expanding the family motor. Our little two-door hatchback was packed solid for just a few days up in York over Christmas, and that was a trip we made without our own travel-cot!
Time to [...]
While we were in SA, my Mom noticed that Jonathan seemed to be experimenting with scrunching up his eyes from time to time.
Sometimes it was in response to a hand, covered in a facecloth, coming up to his face to give it a good clean; but more often it was a random gesture, just for [...]
It’s taken a little while to get organised but I’ve finally got the photos from our trip to South Africa into some semblance of order. AND I’ve completed (with help from Tom) some upgrades to our photo pages.
Most of the changes are on the page that displays an individual photo, as shown [...]
