DH is changing into this PJs, Amie looks on and asks: – What are these? – My chest muscles. – No, these. – Nipples. – What are they used for? (Snicker from Mama in the other room.) – (Laughs too) Nothing. On me they’re useless. – Then how did they grow there? – They grow …
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Amie’s Baby Journal
From the moment Amie was born, I started a daily baby journal. I have been keeping a journal since I was 14: sometimes it’s a habit, sometimes a refuge. So it made sense that I would make a separate journal for my daughter, addressed to her and relating the events of her young life before she could …
“Amie is all finished”. And a picture (not by me)
This morning, after a rare full night’s sleep (and blissfully no hypnopompic sightings for me!), we cuddled for 15 minutes before getting well and truly up. Amie was enacting “Baby Amie”: she cuddles and coos and you have to hold and shush her like a baby. Then I asked her: “Do you remember what Baby Amie used …
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