From **FIXME, because this is my life at the moment (apart from stressful stuff about sleep deprivation and the house falling to bits than I don't want to post about ( Read more... )

**FIXME has reached another developmental stage: he's started to produce cute toddlerisms at a serious rate of knots - exceeding his sleep-deprived parents' ability to capture them. A selection from the last weekend ( Read more... )

At only 5 weeks, **TODO said his first words to me just now.

He looked me in the eye and said, "Hoo!", and then, after a little consideration, added, "Hur!".

(Who? Her.)

After asking where mummy had gone, and where **TODO has gone, **FIXME asked, "Where's all gone gone?"

**FIXME has been playing with coins recently, and often mislays them. So he keeps asking, "Where's the money gone?"

As I've been telling him, a lot of people are asking that.

(Still no sibling News.)

Here's a **FIXME update from about three or four months ago, from July just before he was two. I've been meaning to polish it up and add bits in but honestly, it's not going to happen now anyway, so I thought I'd post it anyway before **TODO shows up (due any time in the next three to four weeks). It's a bit of a jumble and could do with some ( Read more... )

There are some challenges in parenting where you never know until you finally face them how - or indeed if - you will be up to dealing with them. So, for instance, you might have a serious and profound squick about one of the icky substances babies tend to exude, and you will find out the hard way whether you can conquer that to deal with the ( Read more... )

Like most toddlers, **FIXME likes to say no. Alas, he can mean any one of at least six different things by this:

• "Penguin (or something which to my crazed toddler imagination resembles one in at least one regard)." - (the latter can be really obscure) - in his world, penguins say "No no no!". Can also be a request to read the book in which these ( Read more... )

It's been ages, and I do want to keep track of what's going on, so here's another **FIXME update.

( Cut for your viewing pleasure or lack thereof ... WARNING contains graphic scenes of puking ... )

Yes, it's time for yet another baby update post, at the grand old age of fifteen and a half months.
( Cut for the convenience of those who still - bafflingly - don't find every detail fascinating ... )