Posted in Uncategorized, tagged chocolate, Easter, Olivia, Rafe, toddler on January 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The little ones love chocolate.
Rafe thought perhaps even his sisters head was made out of chocolate and he could take a bite out of it. Like a big chocolate Easter bunny.
Thankfully we managed to convince him not to. But now we try and avoid getting to close to him when there’s chocolate around. Just in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged christmas, Daddy, ill, Rafe, Santa on December 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
His head is warm, his eyes are bright, his cheeks and ears are red.
With three days until Christmas, Rafe is fighting off a nasty bug. Or would be, if I could actually get him to sleep, or eat, or even drink anything…
“Please, daddy dearest, no pictures. It tires me so.”
Despite whatever Gremlins are attacking his [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cynicism, depression, Devon, doctor, it's all just so fucking funny., life, me, Olivia, Rafe, roller coaster, sarcasm, self loathing, super heroes, tears on November 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi! Thanks for coming. To reward you for your efforts I present a picture of my children as impromptu superheroes. Using what I hope were clean towels and blankets. (Who am I kidding. Of course they were clean!) (That was sarcasm, by the way. )
You know, I’m getting quite good at that lately. Sarcasm. Also, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cell phone, crazy, dinosaur, field mouse, mushroom, Olivia, pictures, Rafe, small children, tyrannosaurus rex on August 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A selection of recent pictures from my cell phone. Including a Tyrannosaurus Rex, some crazy woman, a field mouse , a small child, a mushroom, and another small child, .
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby, ball, bath, beach, boots, Devon, fun, good humoured, growing, gypsies, ice cream, independant, kick, mine, moon, move, Olivia, park, pictures, Rafe, shoes, sorry, spaghetti, talking, toddler, two year old, wellies on August 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
2 years 5 months
Rafe continues to grow like a weed. He seems taller every evening, and I am amazed when I undress him and see how little he still is. Thankfully.
His vocabularly is growing along with him. He now answers “yes” when I ask him questions. He likes to shout “go way!” or “gimmee” or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blackberries, butterflies, countryside, Daddy, depressed, fields, flash earth, grass, grasshoppers, hunters, kids, lake, Lost, mommy, nettles, pictures, poor, Rafe, rowing, Saturday, sheep ticks, walk, woods on July 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Had to get out of the house, so took the kids for a walk over the fields. We’ve been over the fields across the way before, dozens of times. Of course the key thing is that we’ve been over the fields across the way, dozens of times, with Daddy. Daddy, who has the uncanny [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bed time, Devon, heavens, in the night garden, lashing, pictures, Rafe, rain, seafront, storm, trees, watching, wind, window on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It was getting on towards bedtime, Rafe was watching the last of “In the Night Garden” before it was time to go up. Suddenly the drizzle outside turned into a great shower from the heavens. The trees were whipping back and forth, the rain lashing against the windows. “Rafe! Look!” He turned to the windows [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Arizona, Daddy, David, england, getting old, headache, long walk, Rafe, scrabble, Solent, Southsea Rose Garden, suburn, sun stroke, Sunday, walk on June 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Being from Arizona I very frequently underestimate the power of the sun in England. Sunburn? In England? Surely not possible!
It is, I assure you. When we left yesterday it was slightly overcast and cool. Grabbing the sunscreen was a thought that never even occured to me. The route I had mapped out for our long [...]
Posted in Rafe notes, tagged blossom, cheese, excuse me, food, grandma, hair, independance, meat, new words, picky, please, Rafe, springtime, stern, sweet tooth, swimming, tacos, yelling on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
2 years 3.5 months
Rafe is again very hoarse today, despite not seeming ill and being quite happy in himself.
Since turning two back in March, Rafe has just blossomed. He says a new word practically every day, it seems! Yesterday he said “Grandma” and “please”, both in context! It was so cute watching him say “peas?! [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged deformity, fall, fine, in toeing, lamb, pigeon toe, podiatrist, Rafe, relieved, running, specialist, tumble, walking, worried on June 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
About the time that Rafe started walking properly we noticed that he was pigeon-toed. That is, he turns his feet (both but primarily his right foot- or was it his left? I’m rubbish at those things) inwards when he walks or runs. As well as being disturbing for us, it makes for difficult for walking [...]
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