love Me mama!
Wed, September 24, 2008 at 22:14 me (cuddling with my daughter on the couch): I love your nose, I love your toes, I love your knees I love you legs, I love your neck, I love your shoulders….
Chi: Mama, you don’t have to love my body!
me: Oh? Why?
Chi: You must just love me!
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She is 3.5 and it blows me away that she can instinctively feel she is worth more than the sum of her parts. That she can gently tell me that I need not objectify her into sweet knees, toes and nose. I am humbled.
twinkle twinkle ad lib....
Sun, February 17, 2008 at 20:38 Driving home yesterday evening, E and I were having a quiet, adult conversation in the front, the Ci is her car seat in the back chatting and playing when suddenly she break out into loud song…
“twinkle twinkle traffic light….”
the littlest details
Wed, September 26, 2007 at 12:07 the littlest details…. transcribed from my diary for the from her first year.
Week after Glastonbury 2004 = probable week of conception (not the best of timing from a detox point of view)
First instinctual inkling that I was pregnant - sitting in Vondel Park in Amsterdam with E.
4 days later - Pregnancy test positive
22 Feb 05: scan no 4 all ok!
19 March 05: Baby shower (je, me, ce, lm, et, ao, vg, gs, jw, sb, tp, jb, mt, sd, )
24 March 05: second antenatal class in Pottery Lane with Barbara Knott.
31 March 05: antenatal class
5 April 05: tour of labour ward with E
6 April 05: pre birth spa pamper session!
8 April 05: Expectant Yaya arrives from Zimbabwe for the birth
7 April 05: antenatal class
14 April 05: antenatal class
15 April 05: Chi’s due date
20 April 05: Shiatsu massage with Veronica Howard - hoping to kick-start labour and avoid being induced followed by Grandpa’s birthday dinner
22 April 05: last midwife meeting
23 April 05: heavily pregnant Passover Dinner with friends
24 April 05: midnight - labour begins
25 April 05: 7:30am - rush to hospital, 11:30 epidural, 15:10 Chi arrives!
30 April 05: gained 40g
4 May 05: gained 140g
10 May 05: BCG given
15 May 05: first blocked nose
18 June 05: NCT 1st reunion at Pottery Lane - all babies born
20 June 05: Chi accidental bumped her red dog, smiled at herself in the mirror, 1st taste of anything other than milk, and that was panadol!
27 June 05: 1st baby yoga class - continued until she could crawl
29 June 05: First public breastfeeding…. in St James Park
25 August 05: Chi rolls over for the first time
31 August 05: Chi’s first picnic lunch to Hampstead Ponds… E, G, C, Chi and me - we had to sit outside
8 Sept 05: Chi rolls off couch at wedding dress shop!
10 Sept 05: First tooth makes appearance!
17 Sept 05: Chi’s first wedding
25 Sept 05: Chi goes to Cardiff
28 Sept 05: Chi begins to kneel
1 Sept 05: Chi goes to Cornwall
3 Oct 05: Chi’s second tooth
4 Oct 05: Chi’s first dive forward from kneeling position
15 Oct 05: First time we left Chi with babysitters - FireHouse Hen dinner and a dashed midnight return to a crying babe
20 Oct 05: first crawl
22 Oct 05: Chi’s second wedding
29 Nov 05: Chi’s first swim
10 Dec 05: Chi pulls up against tables
28 Dec 2005: 1st clap
12 Jan 2006: stands on her own
23 Jan 2006: 1st movie… Memoirs of a Geshia at the electric Cinema in Portabello - the baby show!
9 Feb 2006: took first steps
26 Feb 06: Chi walks
more to follow….
Lets pretend
Thu, September 20, 2007 at 12:33 Mama I’m Cinderella!
Mama you are Ermitrude*
Mama, Aba is Prince Roderick
* Ermitrude = name of one of the ugly sisters in her Cinderella book.
