I'm back

Well, it's been almost a year, but I feel I am ready for a bit more venting. When I look at my previous posts, I almost shudder at the problems I was dealing with then. I feel that if only I could reach back into the past and tell that woman to chill, that it will all pass, and - yes - to trust her instincts, it would have been easier for her to enjoy Zephyr as a difficult youngster. And he was a hard baby to deal with.

He is now a very different boy. At fourteen months, he is now definitely a boy, a toddler and not a baby. Everywhere he goes, which is everywhere he can go, he goes at top speed, on two feet now. He is becoming a parrot, imitating our speech and gestures and learning to say a few words. Pointed fingers indicate he wants his 'atta' (water) or would like to go 'ouside', fingers are pulled back from his snacks when they are too 'ot', hands are thrust into the air when he wants 'up'. There is such a sense of pride watching him learn, I had no idea.

Many times over the past year and a bit I have had the realisation that while having a baby has its moments of drudgery and tears, I have also never smiled or laughed so much. Our little boy is hilarious and fills us with so much joy, it's kind of ridiculous.

Anyway, enough cheese, this post is just to say I am back to blogging and I hope you will follow me through the next year with Zephyr. I have given the blog a bit of a remodel too.

To follow, a potentially controversial post about disposable and cloth nappies. Enjoy.

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