Yes my darling Ava, keep carrying your baby sister on your hip as much as you do. Carry her and hold her so that you will never forget how it felt for her to be small in your arms. Even when my arms were tired I used to carry you. We would walk down streets...

With each of my babies I have adored this. When they are just old enough to reach out their tiny hands and play with the water in the shower. The way their delicate fingers dance under the droplets. The way they find such delight in the discovery. The purest innocence and joy. Before she was...

Hanging out.

They had a special day out with their grandparents today and the heat was getting a bit much for baby Estelle after lasts nights heat wave, so Pete & I spent the day at the shopping centre for some air con relief. When night fell, I didn’t have a photo of the day, but when I looked...

Gentle, loving and protective are the words I would use to describe how Ava is with her baby sister. 9 years and 8 months apart, yet their bond is something so close and so beautiful. It’s more than I dreamed it might be. How amazing it is to see my eldest maturing, while as she...

Every night she has a bath at golden hour. 4 months ago her tiny body lay helplessly in our hands as we swished her gently across the top of the water. The baby bath seemed like a pool with her in it. Now she places her hands on the sides as though to say, “this is...

“Mum if I had a boss named Barry and I was writing him a letter, would I write, ‘Dear Boss’ or ‘Dear Barry’? ” For the last week she has created an imaginary world where she works in an office for a boss named Barry. Her name is Rose and she has worked tirelessly on...

They read every day. Often they’ll read a few times a day. They read so much more than I did at their age. They genuinely love books. They pause to tell me the funny bits. “Hey mum, listen to this! It’s sooo funny!” Anouk enjoys reading Anh Do ‘Weirdo’ books and the Andy Griffiths ‘Treehouse series’....

I surprised the family with tennis racquets for all 4 of us for Christmas. I had tennis lessons for a couple of years in late primary school & one thing my family used to do for fun was take our racquets down to the local primary school on a Sunday afternoon & hit a tennis...