• baby - The Gallery

    The Gallery: Favourite Photo

    The theme for The Gallery this week is your favourite photograph. I’ve been a total geek since Edward was born and everyday I’ve taken a photo of him. He has his own little blog which I use for updating the extended family on his progress. My iPhoto is creaking with the amount of photos I’ve taken since he was born and they’re organised into daily events, as well as the best of each week, and finally the best of the best of each week which get turned into a mini mosaic and uploaded to his blog and my flickr account.…

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    The Gallery: A Smile (one of many)

    Looking through my photographs of Edward’s first six months I’m struck by just how many pics there are of him smiling! According to my scrupulous records he first smiled on his 35 day and he quickly learnt to laugh too. This pic is one of my favourite. Edward seems to save his biggest smiles for when daddy walks through the door after a hard day at the office. I’m not jealous when I’m the one who changes the nappies, feeds him, washes his dirty clothes, etc as each smile makes my heart leap that little bit higher inside. This post…

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    The Gallery: a celebration

    The theme for The Gallery this week is a celebration. I see a few people have chosen a photo of their wedding day but I’m not ashamed to admit that my wedding day wasn’t the best day of my life! We both dislike being the centre of attention and found the planning stressful and the day itself a bit overwhelming. Our honeymoon was a different matter. The picture I’ve chosen sums up our 2 week jaunt around Scandinavia. No, it didn’t rain all the time (!) but we had a laugh exploring new places, travelling by plane, boat, train through…

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    The Gallery: One Day in August

    I’m surprised to admit I love traveling on steam trains. There’s something about the smell, the atmosphere, the style and comfort of the carriages. Today we took our little one to the 36th Island Steam Show at the Isle of Wight Steam Railway, a beautifully restored stretch of the old line which once crossed the island. We were fortunate to have a carriage to ourselves and sat back and enjoyed the view on the hour-long round trip. Edward seemed to enjoy every second of our day out, from his first ride on the miniature steam train to the vintage traction…

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    The Gallery: A photo I'm proud of

    This weeks theme for The Gallery is a Photo I’m Proud of. Since my little one was born I’ve tried to take a photograph of him every day and posted it here. I found that the quality of my photographs wasn’t very good so recently upgraded to a Lumix G Micro System. The photographs are crystal clear and it’s taken me a while to choose just one photo of my gorgeous little man. Edward sucking his fingers (we’re still waiting for him to cut his first tooth!). This post is for Week 24 of The Gallery: A Photo I’m Proud…

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    The Gallery: A Memory

    Instead of posting a picture I’m going to re-direct you to my other blog. Just before Edward was due my husband thought it would be fun to give the baby his or her own blog , where we could post photos and let our relatives know what we were up to. Although I thought this was a great idea I didn’t want the responsibility of keeping it up to date whilst juggling a new baby! Fast forward two weeks after Edward came along and my husband had posted some pics on the baby blog when he was taken ill. He…

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    The Gallery: a portrait

    My contribution for this weeks The Gallery over at Sticky Fingers is this portrait I took of my husband and son yesterday. My poor husband has recently been discharged from 2 weeks in hospital where he underwent an emergency operation for an abcess in his bowel. He’s recovering well but it’s been hard for him being parted from his new son. He is just about able to hold him again. I’ve been keeping count of all the nappies he has missed out on changing for when he’s well enough to help out again! This post is for week 9 of…