For the first few weeks after Jon (21m) figured out the trick of hauling himself up onto the dining room chairs, this was just the best fun. He loves getting a little collection of things to play with on the table and in this case, a pen (that he can’t operate) is the most delightful [...]
Since recovering from the financial pain of paying the deposit and stamp duty for our present flat, we’ve been steadily ploughing through a list of rooms that need to be overhauled, in order of importance.
First came the shower room (2005) which was so ghastly beforehand that I didn’t even think to take any pictures until [...]
We had a phone call yesterday morning, from what turned out be a slightly puzzled friend. She’d been intrigued by an unusual recording left on her answer-phone, and had decided to try and find out a little more by using BT’s “last-number-recall” feature to dial the last incoming number.
So she didn’t know who she was [...]
After 6½ months of crawling (during which time he reached proficiency level of “lightning fast”) and 3½ months of “cruising”, Jonathan finally took his first steps at 19½ months. It wasn’t anything dramatic, just a stumbling dash from the security of the wall, to a chair three baby-steps away, but it did show that he [...]
