Dear Bene, You are now older than Josie was when we first moved to this house. You are the age Fran was when she became a big sister and almost the age Freddie should have been when you were born. You might still be very little but you are now so very… very… big. Such […]
And now you are one.
Dear Benedict, You are one. This month you learned to answer 'give me a kiss' with a kiss, 'do you want some milk?' with a lecherous look, 'can I have it?' With lots of giving and taking games. You gained tooth 5 and 6, both top ones and managed 3 coldless weeks, learned to say […]
Coming around again.
Dear Bene, You are 11 months old. So close to a year. What I wouldn't have given to know you'd make it to the last day of the year. Even now saying that a day early feels like a risk. I've tried very hard not to make your first year about your brother. I think […]
The in a minute mummy
Dear Bene, You are nine months old. I'm so late with this post. Again. I fear this is the way it will go on now. To be honest though, little fella, I think I've been avoiding this one. I remember writing a post to your brother when he should have been nine months, it was […]
Tick tock, goes the clock.
Dear Bene, And now you are eight months. I was so buy last month that I didn't even write you a letter, though I did write about your first holiday. Sorry about that. You keep me pretty buy these days little man and everything else has needed attention too, the house, your sisters and life. […]
Baby mine.
Bene, now you are six months old. Not today, because life has gone fast and I missed the exact date, though I noticed. It’s good to have been too busy, too happy, too relaxed to feel I had to write exactly on the day. You are six months. Half. Year. A while new life. A […]
When I was just a little boy…
Dear Ben, You are 5 months old. You are part of us. You have been here long enough that your sisters don’t always want to marvel over you and sometimes want to hand you back. This is amazing; I hope you will never know how amazing. This month they have forgiven the world enough not […]
Baby got blue eyes.
Dear Ben, Today you are 4 months old. You love to stand, you talk to us in your baby ‘ah goooooo’ language. You watch, you copy, you dribble. You feed, all day, every day With. Out. Stopping. You are huge, considering the baby you are. You are twisting and turning and trying to turn over, […]
Are you calling me darling?
Dear Ben, Today you are 3 months old. Do you know that even now I find it hard to believe I am not typing “you should be 3 months old”? I still find it hard to believe our luck. I’m not sure that I ever was very good at trusting everything would generally work out […]
Letter to Ben : 2 months old
Dear Ben, Now you are finally asleep, having kept me carefully away from all the things I should probably have tried to do this evening, I can write you your first letter. I will make sure you never know how much I relish you taking up all of my time. I will keep from you […]
