ILP rolling photo quarantine 2

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That looks like a "Before" photo.

Reading to each other:
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We went to the beach, and Owen disappeared. Turns out he went to look at some horses. He picked up a stick and started showing off:
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He loves it at the beach:
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That whole set is a joy (delighted to see a Tallulah in there!). We've got to get these kids to a beach sometime.

For the time being, camping will have to do...

(ridiculously overstuffed Micra)
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(Never without a book)
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(A wall is also a door)
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ilxors have the cuetest kids!

ben and owen always make me squeeeeeee and now i feel crepey :(

you're not the only one lurking here, i'm glad i'm not alone actually

You aren't creepy! Kids are teh cute.

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awwwwwwwwwwwww

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awesome!

Oh noes!

From our vacation a few weeks ago:

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Ava, not sure whether she's glad to be back at school (was nursery last year, it's reception this year), Lulu, determined not to let her go...

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omg they're so ridiculously cute and have the best kid clothes ever.

That's Ava's sort-of school uniform. They're not too strict as long as you adhere to colours and everything is fairly plain. Don't want to go overboard here, but here's a couple of small ones for comparison (probably posted on other threads before) - Ava and Lulu at start of Ava's nursery year and the two of them at end of nursery year. (We do have a similar shot of them at the front door for Sept '09 but I prefer the garden pic above)...

(Sept '08 - I'm sure green was a temporary unofficial measure!)
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(Jul '09 - Bunny is the worse for wear by now)
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Right after this shot, Elisabeth decided to have some of Ophelia's meat. It's the first time she has eaten something we cooked. She usually eats specific baby food (spaghetti 12-36 months). You don't know how happy this made.

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Elisabeth loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooves to walk (ironic seeing how late she was with walking). She's always out and about.

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Can we go in the pool already!

Love Elisabeth's T-shirt!

Shamelessly cute:
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Blowing bubbles:
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Good work! With Ava and Lulu, blowing bubbles usually ends up being an advanced form of spitting. Lulu still hasn't mastered blowing her own nose (she finds the whole operation hilarious).

Here's the girls being their usual nonplussed selves outside a major London gallery:
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And here's me trying to coerce them into shot (photo by PJMiller):
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A walk through Sydenham Hill Wood, collecting acorns:
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Here's Chloe. Born 8/13/09 at 11:45 am. We're finally getting little smiles from her!

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!!

:)

aww!

awww, kinda makes me wanna go through it again. kinda.

Thanks, guys!

So, is there a "When do I get to sleep again?" thread??? Cuz I'm tired.

I think it was around 3 months we started getting intermittent full night sleeps. Don't worry, you won't remember most of this by then.

Congrats! :)

Lovely Chloe! Those first few weeks are magical but...nah, I don't want to go through it again. It's very nice to have a bit of a newborn-cuddle once in a while courtesy of new-parent chums, but am very happy to hand back after a while...

Y'know, I am STILL not getting a full night's sleep after two years. But that's with Elisabeth. Ophelia slept through from 3 months. Honestly I think she did it cause she wanted a sister. roffle. Like Michael I love babies but I'm way past that phazzzze.

Two years!!! Don't say that! I'm hoping for the magical 3 month mark. Chloe woke up every 2 hours last night and we're starting to go a bit mad as a result. That said, she has been sleeping much better - but as soon as our confidence rises, we have a really bad night. Oh well, I'm 95% sure we're only having one, so I can appreciate the experience.

Archie more or less sleeps through now, and he's only five months. This seems little short of miraculous considering what a terrible sleeper his big brother was (and he still wakes 1 or 2 times a night more often than he sleeps right through...)

But they are lovely so I don't mind!

Beeps slept through from 3 weeks but then regressed at 2 yrs to waking up min of once a night

Just realized what this board is about, haha. I'm usually over at ILM, but hey. Lotsa cute kids here! Allow me to add my own:
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yikes, fail
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doh!
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Sylvie

:D i did it!

awwww

Wow, that's a corking photo! Welcome, Sylvie (and tylerw)!

awwww. babies are awesome. look at those cheeks!

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one more from the same session

Ack! His (?) gaze follows me around the room!

er, missed the fine print. HER gaze. sorry.

haha, yeah there's a little bit of this in that last shot
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I love the way you are slowly warming her to Jazz. ;-) Sylvia is such a sweet name. And she looks sooooo sweet.

Two years!!! Don't say that! I'm hoping for the magical 3 month mark.

A bit of hyperbole. she slept through from 14 months or so. Before that it was pure hell. For the longest time she woke up EVERY hour. After that it was actually Ophelia and Elisabeth taking turns waking up. :-) Funnily enough our employee delivered her second baby a month before and also had a hellish time. Every morning we would open the shop and lament over how little sleep we had. :-) Im pretty sure that if Elisabeth had been first, I would have waited with a second child. But y'know I didn't and I'm VERY happy: they differ only about 21 months in age.

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Sylvie, Ophelia and Elisabeth are all very cute!

Chloe has actually only woken us up once per night for the last three nights in a row now. Pretty good! Of course, as I type this, I realize I'm totally jixing myself.

Jinxing myself, that is.

Went to Maui last week. Here are some from the Luau...

Ben:
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Owen:
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Owen gets on stage and steals the show:
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Whoops - that's Ben on the stage!