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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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138/365 Superman

I’m sharing this photo for the cute-factor alone. But to truly appreciate the cute factor you need just a little bit of a back-story. Josh is a bit of a superman geek and so he was very pleased to find this superman outfit, complete with cape. Riley’s response upon putting it on, “I love superman-ses! [...]

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106/365 Hello, Little Person

While the jellybean has been busy growing, my beautiful baby has been doing some growing of her own. After shooting up recently she’s started to fill out again. And she talks in full sentences, thinking about what she says before it comes out of her mouth. I love the look of deep concentration on her [...]

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Just About Half Way

I’m just about half way through my incredibly hectic two month stint of juggling two part-time jobs, a toddler and a house. I don’t do the house bit that well at the moment although i do just enough that it doesn’t become completely out of hand. But it’s never really tidy either. I’d love to [...]

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84/365 In a Name

I’ve been aware for awhile now that Riley can say my name. When I ask her – can you say Zoey? She says it right back to me ‘Soey’. And I like her calling me mum or mummy, I don’t want her to start calling me by my actual name. But I guess I just [...]

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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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Favourite Words

You’ll notice that the vast majority of my favourite words at the moment are ‘s’ words. There’s something about the lispy nature of them. And how softly spoken she tends to be with those sorts of words. “Hi Sweets” I don’t know when we started calling her sweets, it was just one of those nicknames [...]

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52/365 Mum!

I don’t know when it happened but sometime a few days ago ‘mummy’ was gone and was promptly replaced by ‘mum’. I’m not sure how I feel about this forging ahead into little kid-dom. But I think it’s fair to say I’m not a fan. Not even a little bit. I was initially reluctant to [...]

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28/365 Joyful Words

This morning we braved sub-zero temperatures to go to the park and take some photos. Ok. It probably wasn’t sub-zero. And drama queen tendencies notwithstanding, I’m told that yesterday was the coldest day in 30 years. It always amazing how much I enjoy new words. Today it was ‘pel-can!’ (translation: pelican). And as the lone [...]

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Mooshy

Who wouldn’t want to kiss those mooshy cheeks? It’s no secret (if you twitter) that I’ve been feeling a little low. A few things happened today to cheer me up. When I got in the shower this morning there was a lovely message from Mr Goog using the foam letters that we have in there [...]

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