Julie's Boggle

We went along to an R.E.M. concert last night. Something that had required lots of planning – “seated” tickets bought almost a year ago, special parking booked near Twickenham stadium, baby-sitter arranged, and so on. A proper night out with the appropriate-sized hole gouged out of our bank balance to prove it.
So I [...]

Jon is pretty good at keeping his top gum-line well hidden. And he doesn’t welcome probing advances in that particular area either. (Kudos to Daddy on getting this photo!)
Consequently we were slightly late in spotting the middle two of his top teeth — getting a glimpse of them for the first time about [...]

As might have been apparent in my previous post, I embarked on our caravan holiday with a fair amount of trepidation. This turned out to be unfounded and everything went far better than expected.
So well in fact that we have already made plans to go again next year!
The caravan we hired was not a [...]

Having just finished re-adjusting all baby-proofing for the extended arm-reach that sitting next to things gave him, I came into the lounge one morning, a day or two after he had started crawling, and found Jon kneeling at the coffee table. Oh dear.
The besieged items on the coffee table retreated further into their shrinking [...]

We’ve been watching Jon experiment with various forms of locomotion for a long time now. Back in May he was fully into rolling. He also became very good at shuffling himself backwards which led to all sorts of interesting scenarios where he got himself stuck under our sofa, under the dining room chairs, [...]

The month after he turned one was a busy time for our young Jonathan — he spent it learning all sorts of new and fun things he could do with the wondrous body he’s been given!
For quite a few months we’d seen him moving all over the flat – more on that later. But [...]