Babyfy Blog

I can’t believe my ‘baby’ is two already. It feels like he has been with us forever yet it also feels like the blink of an eye and that only yesterday he was a newborn with a cry like a mewing kitten rather than the full blown screaming banshee that he can, on occasions, be now.

Of course, his second birthday also means we have been parents for two years. Our lives have changed beyond recognition. Yes we miss the Sunday lie-ins, the lounging around with the newspapers, the hours of free time that you don’t appreciate you had until after you have children.
But both small and large things make up for this in infinitely more than equal measure. The smile he gives us when we go in to wake him up first thing...

Five things to know about me if we are to be BFFs:

1. I have two kids who I adore. I also have two kids I sometimes wish would just go away. Surprisingly, they are the same two kids.
2. I’m a recovering TV addict.
3. In the last five years, 75% of the books I read was of the Sci-Fi genre. In my Top-5 Books of All Times list, two are Sci-Fi. (Ender’s Game and more...)
   
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TLM and I were hounded out of a coffee shop today. Ok, so no one threw stones at us, or biscotti or choc chip muffins or whatever people in Starbucks would throw if they were forcing someone to abandon their half drunk, half shot, tall skinny latte and run. In fact no one even told us to leave. But they might as well have done. Every time TLM shrieked – TLM lets out piercingly loud screams when he doesn’t get his own way– the other customers gave us looks so filthy that even a dose of Napisan wouldn’t clean them up.

There was the man quietly (well, quietly ‘til we rocked up) reading a book. The depressed looking young couple – she was all smiles at TLM when we first walked in and TLM was giggling and f...