Mar
12
Five Years
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Clive and I are coming up on FIVE YEARS of being together. In three days it will be the anniversary of us meeting in Mexico. I can still picture meeting Jon and Clive when they came to pick me up at the airport. I’d packed my bags, including a couple of presents for Ari, enough [...]
Jun
9
Dear Ashden: Month Twenty-One
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Dear Ash, You’re 21 months old today and I love you and YOU LOVE ME. Do you know how I know that? It’s because you told me so! Music to my ears, kiddo, it was pretty much the best thing I’ve heard since your first giggle. You were riding on your tricycle around the house [...]
May
23
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 [...]
May
21
Ash Claps
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Ash Claps Originally uploaded by typealice Ash has learned a new trick! It only took a couple of weeks for him to learn how to clap.
May
14
Hello, Georgia!
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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 [...]
May
9
Dear Ashden: Month Eight
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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 [...]
May
2
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 [...]
Apr
30
Ash learns how to stand up
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Ash learns how to stand up Originally uploaded by typealice Ash has been pulling himself up into standing position just after his 7-month birthday.
Apr
23
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 [...]
Apr
21
Oopsie Daisy
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I left the room for TEN SECONDS to put my underwear away, and this is what I came back to.