While walking home today, KO picked up a big brown crinkly fallen leaf and held it up to his ear saying, “I can hear it making a NOISE!!!! I hear the WIND in it!” I asked, “What’s it saying?” Without skipping a beat: “It’s saying to me, KO, I love you!!!”
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2009 : A Couple of Milestones
KO asked to be carried everywhere until well past his third birthday. He hated walking anywhere, though he’d happily run around a playground for hours. I think it was mainly the comfort he craved. I used to carry him in a sling, and anytime he went in it, he nestled up against me with a…
1st April 2008
KO was born on the 1st April 2008. We stayed in the hospital for 5 days (for my sake, not his). It seemed like an eternity. Then we came home. Home was peaceful. Here is a photo taken when he had been in the world for just 14 days. In. The. World. Alive. For. 14.…
18th July 2007 [LONDON]
When this photo was taken, I didn’t know that I was pregnant. The clues were all there; I was just too inexperienced and ignorant to put two and two together. But these things are always so easy to see with hindsight. A few days before this photo was taken, I had pulled on a pair of jeans…