growing up

Pinch Me

Who is that? I barely recognise her. Every once in a while there’s just a giant leap forward and that was this week. It’s not just the vocabulary explosion or how much more she understands, although that’s part of it. Mostly, it’s just seeing her become her own person. On the weekend I was madly [...]

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Five Things You Won’t Think You’ll Miss

This is part of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge over on Aussie Mummy Bloggers. Today’s taks is to write a list post. The last time I did this challenge, this is what I came up with – 10 Things I Didn’t Read in What To Expect. And since then I’ve definitely [...]

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140/365 The Cup

Toddlers are often rigid creatures of habit. Everything always in the same order, done in the same way. And it can take a whole lot to change something. Which is probably why I lean to the change resistant as well as far as the toddler is concerned because I know how much work it entails. [...]

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137/365 Big Bed

It looks like we are all ready to move the munchkin into her big bed over the weekend (assuming I can finish painting the skirting boards. And yes I realise I’ve been meaning to do those skirting boards for ages. But it’s HOT). We have the bed frame, the mattress, the doona (not that she’ll [...]

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Week of Swimming

This week is a week of swimming. I’m taking Riley to a lesson every day to get her ready for next term. So this week she’s been going in with the teacher on her own. I’ve longed for the time when she’d be able to go in on her own. That I could do away [...]

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118/365 It’s Official

It’s official. Now (mostly) potty trained at home (if keen on being nude) and capable of short visits into the outside world minus the nappies and this morning we are heading off to buy her a big girl bed and paint for her new room. I also have to buy her a whole heap of [...]

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The Big Girl

Every now and again, little ones seem to take giant leaps forward in the space of a week. This has been one of those weeks. And she suddenly seems so grown up. She’s starting stringing more words together, ‘coming mum!’, ‘one more minute’. Yesterday, she started having a preference for what she wears. And she [...]

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My Little Lady

Sometimes things happen when you’re not really looking. One day I had a toddler who still reminded me very much of the baby that she once was. And then yesterday, I turned around, and there she was, my little lady. With only the tiniest trace of the baby in her eyes and cheeks. No longer [...]

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Snow White and Rose Red

I had the nickname Rose Red when I was little – from the fairy tale Snow White and Rose Red – not the Snow White everyone knows but the other one. Although in hindsight that doesn’t make any sense because Rose Red was the cheerful one and Snow White was the quiet one. I think [...]

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The Growing Pains are Mine

Proper pyjamas make her seem really grown up. I am not a live in the moment sort of person. I either think too much about the past or too much about the future. So when I see her in her pyjamas and not the wondersuits she’s been in since she was a newborn it makes [...]

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