Piper

First Steps

The day before yesterday Piper took her first tentative steps. Yesterday she took a few more steps. Some were on purpose. Some she did when she wasn’t paying attention and just forgot to hang on. Once she starts walking around I will probably have to accept the fact that she is a TODDLER. The horror. [...]

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The Squishy Turns One

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that my baby is one. One amazing year of changing everything. One year of doing everything just a little bit before I was ready for her to. One year of holding onto tiny moments as they flew on by. One of the benefits of having a [...]

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Mother of the Year

It’s possible that I completely spaced out on the fact that it is Piper’s actual birthday on Sunday. It’s possible that I was just thinking about the party next weekend and completely forgot that my baby was leaving babydom IN TWO DAYS and meandering her way into toddlerdom. Mother of the Year. You can worship [...]

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I Don’t Want to Know

Next month I will be spending three nights away from Piper. She will be just shy of a year old. I didn’t spend a night away from Riley until she was 18 months old and even then it was just for the one night. Luckily, Riley’s at an age where the last time I was [...]

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Weaning. It’s Complicated

I don’t really want to wean Piper. Everything about breastfeeding her is easy. You know, except for the biting. I’m over that. That is one thing we could definitely put in the pro-weaning basket. And as I’m feeding her through the night or first thing in the morning the last thing I want to be [...]

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283/365 9 Months. What?!

The Squishy is now 9 months old. On the outside for as long as she was on the inside. I’m watching her now. She’s pulled herself up to standing at the couch. Flapping her arms gleefully at her sister while she happily destroys some of her father’s (pre-approved for destruction) basketball cards. What the hell [...]

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274/365 The Keen Eater Meets Grandma’s Cooking

It’s safe to say that the Squishy has been extremely well fed in her jaunt at Grandma’s house. Extremely well. So well that she’ll probably fancy herself in prison conditions when we return home. I am more and more convinced that there is nothing she won’t eat. Particularly given the tissues she had her way [...]

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272/365 Daddy’s Girl

The older she gets the more she looks like her papa. She looks alot like Riley too and sometimes Riley will see baby pictures of herself and think they are pictures of Piper but still, there’s so much of her father in it and the more her personality develops the more you can see it. [...]

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268/365 The Squishy Fights Back

You know how the Squishy is really easy going? Well she is. But apparently that now has limits. Specifically – sister limits. This is the steely gaze she gave to her sister after letting out an almighty protest at something being removed from her grasp. I think the fighting is just about to go up [...]

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258/365 Separation Anxiety

This one only wants her mama at the moment. It’s the perfect age for separation anxiety and I read somewhere that they only completely understand object permanence at around 18 months. So she’s a wee bit devastated if I leave the room. I don’t mind this period of intense need. It’s no hardship. And soon [...]

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