New Tooth!

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Ash got his first two bottom teeth at the exact same time exactly four months ago. We knew Ash was teething again but nothing was popping through until! Yesterday! Clive finally found the tooth. We’d been looking in the wrong spot! I really thought he was getting his front teeth, but this one is a […]

Ash Claps

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Ash Claps

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Ash has learned a new trick! It only took a couple of weeks for him to learn how to clap.

We made it! Ash did AMAZING on all three flights, not a single tear. We nursed on all the take offs and landings and he looked out the window and tried to make friends with everyone around him. Travelling with him was so much easier than I thought it’d be. Stuck him in his sling […]

Dear Ashden,
Holy camoli, you’re eight months old today! Have I mentioned yet that you’re amazing? Let’s start of this newsletter by telling you how fantastic you are. YOU ARE FANTASTIC! AMAZING! THE BEST PERSON ON THE ENTIRE PLANET!

You’re a talking machine, my little friend. You said your first word this month, and it just happened […]

Oh god

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Oh god, the love I have for this little creature, it overwhelms me. Today he found a white jelly bean and he got his first taste of sugar. Then when I was eating them and he was sitting on my lap, he smelled the sweet, sweet smell and looked up at me, directly into my […]

Ash learns how to stand up

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Ash has been pulling himself up into standing position just after his 7-month birthday.

I am miserable

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In a matter of two hours I went from feeling perfectly normal to feeling worse than I have since the sickness caused by my first trimester. At first I thought it was mastitis, because I’ve got several very painful clogged ducts on my right boob, but when I went to the doctor this morning she […]

I left the room for TEN SECONDS to put my underwear away, and this is what I came back to.


Well, it’s my 28th birthday. I’m not thrilled about turning this age, but at least we have a good day planned. Clive woke up with Ash for an hour at 5am and another hour at 7:30am so that I could have a (mostly) uninterrupted sleep. I usually take the 5 or 6am shift, so it […]

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