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Monthly Archives: January 2010

January in photos: day 22

We had a water pistol fight after dinner tonight. I just love the way he’s clenching his fist at the same time as firing. Pretty soon after we began racing around the yard squirting each other, we were interrupted by some friends dropping by who just happened to be dog-sitting another friend’s English Springer for…

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January in photos: day 22

Like most mums, I peek in on my boy every night before I go to bed. And pretty much every night, something inside me melts when I see how absolutely precious he looks sleeping. I never know what position I’m going to find him in: curled up, sprawled out, spread-eagled, and it never fails to…

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January in photos: day 21

Today was all about friendship. The beautiful colours in the bouquet that my colleagues gave me at my work farewell today perfectly represent friendship to me; warmth, connection, joy, passion, laughter and conversation. I am so grateful for all the wonderful friendships in my life, both old and new.

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January in photos: day 20

Trying to take photos right before bedtime is really hard. Not only is the light totally crappy in Toby’s room, but he’s never in an easy mood at that time of night. Tonight we had wars over who would take photos, and I let Toby hold my big, heavy camera and press the shutter for…

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January in photos: day 19

Toby the Expressionist. It was quite hard to choose only 7 of the array of expressions that he showed me in a 15 minute interval over dinner tonight. He liked his chicken, he didn’t like his chicken, he dropped some ravioli on the floor and was desperately upset, he made disgusted noises over a piece…

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