How time flies
November 3, 2010
Four months without an update is negligent at best, I’m sorry. I barely know where to begin telling you all about the things that we’ve been up to since July. We had the best summer ever with Tom home for almost 6 weeks. Mama, Daddy and Baby spent lots of quality time together. The sun was shining and our garden was glorious. We ate lunches in the garden and walked to the swings near the church. The highlight of the summer was definitely a visit to Boston to see Kaffryn, James and Hannah. It was a glorious time. The girls played in Hannah’s paddling pool. James and Tom blew bubbles for the babies to play with and Hannah charmed us all to pieces. Patch, their dog, was kinda cute too and Ellie May became quite confident around him. Towards the end of the summer we got together Ellie, Lola, Hazel and Isaac – the babies from our antenatal class, to celebrate their 6-month-versary. A brilliant BBQ with lots of babies and stories and Daddies speaking as men do.
September came all too soon and Tom had to return to work. Ellie May got hand, foot and mouth disease, a cold and her first 2 teeth in a period of 2 weeks. Poor little baby didn’t know if she was coming or going for a while. Baby yoga kept us entertained on Monday afternoons and we made new friends and learned new songs. Ellie started to walk holding on to our fingers, desperately trying to find out all that was going on as the builders put in our new kitchen.
October brought independent crawling and the resultant use of the word “No!” by Mama and Daddy. We celebrated the Christenings and Naming Ceremonies of several baby friends as well as Ellie May’s own baptism. That was a brilliant weekend as friends came from far (Alabama!) and wide to celebrate with us. October has also seen Ellie May beginning at nursery for 2 half days per week. To say she was unimpressed is an understatement – the girlie really has a temper when she feels wronged! But now she is settling much more easily, making friends with the other children and enjoying the chance to visit the nursery’s chickens twice a week.
Take a look at a sample of pictures over the last few months:
November 3, 2010 at 11:49 am
Hi Yo’all,
Time does fly by when you’re having fun, and you sound like you’ve had a great time! Pictures are great – enjoy, its a time that goes by so quickly and then they become teenagers uggh !Looking forward to seeing you back after Christmas
xx
November 3, 2010 at 11:54 am
It can be hard to remember what happens over time because they change so quickly!
I decided lat year that I would write a letter to Hannah every year and give them to her when she’s 18. Last year is was easy to do because I updated it throughout the year. This year it’s been hard to remember all the nice details because I’ve left it until now to write it.
Sometimes I wish we’d written more things down or kept a scrapbook, but I think sometimes we can spend too much time documenting what we’re doing rather than enjoying each moment for what it is.
November 3, 2010 at 12:10 pm
I’m doing the letter thing too. I’m doing it whenever there’s a special occasion – birthday, christmas, whatever. You’re right though – it’s not all about documenting. It’s about enjoying these amazing girls we’ve been given. But I know how much I treasure the odd bits my mother recorded for me. I wish she’d written more before she died.