Dear Arlo (fifteen months part 2)
Dear Arlo, I’m writing you again and you are still the same age?! That’s right. The last letter was a summary of the past four months, but I realised there are so many more things I wanted to say...
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Awards season has well and truly kicked off in Blogland. Nominations for the MAD Blog Awards are now open for the next four weeks. This is the bit where I kindly ask you to consider my blog when...
View ArticleDear Arlo, you are seventeen months old.
Dear Arlo, So, I am here to tell you all about the last month, and what you were up to at seventeen months old. You wave hello and goodbye to everything. You wave at trains, buses, when I turn off the...
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You can understand pretty much everything we say, and it seems that you are always listening. Especially when it involves the words ‘train’, ‘cake’, or ‘chocolate’. You are a little sponge soaking up...
View ArticleArlo at 21 months old
Dear Arlo, You went duck crazy this month. Ever since your first duck-feeding experience, whenever we ask what you want to do today, the response is always “Walk!….Duck!” Also, thanks to your dada,...
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Dear Arlo, Let me start by explaining your hair this month. You have a stubborn tuft at the back that likes to point towards the sky. Dada thought he could help by cutting the tuft shorter. But the...
View ArticleArlo at 23 months
Dear Arlo, You may be the only 23 month old who will interrupt dinner-table conversations to shout “Egyptian Goose! Moorhen has red beak with yellow tip!” We had your first full sentences last month,...
View ArticleArlo at two and a quarter
Arlo, you are two and a quarter. I know I say this every time, but yet again it seems you have changed loads since my last update just before you turned two. Again, language is the most notable...
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Arlo, you are two and a half years old, and about to become a big brother. We have two books, ‘Waiting for Baby’ and ‘The New Baby’ , which you have been reading obsessively over the past few months....
View ArticleArlo at three and three quarters
I love our chats. You ask something, I give you an answer, and then we discuss it. If you don’t quite know the word for something, but you want to talk about it, you are really good at describing it...
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