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December 2013. Lovely summer, lovely Christmas. And lovely Abby needs to go to High School and remember what it's like to know less than everyone else. Including her parents. |
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June 2013. And Abby made me use this picture, because all the others are 'embarassing'. As is everything else I do and say, apparently. Ho hum. |
January 2013. Showing early signs of teenage. And working so hard to prepare for entrance exams for the local grammar schools it makes me weep. It isn't right. And she never complains. |
June 2012. The big 1-O looms in a couple of months and Abby is incrementally rejecting all things childlike. Including a sense of joy in small pleasures, the ability to smile and desire for cheap tat. It's all expensive tat, starting from now... |
January 2012. Post Christmas and excitment-frenzy. And Abby really can do 'excited', in a way that only a 9-year old can. Too bright for her own boots, majoring on backchat, can't help but wonder how we're going to mould this lunatic into sane adolescence... |
June 2011. Coming up nine years old. Behaves like 14. More energy than a Duracell bunny, mostly focused on stropping about. Reserves a little for working at school, thankfully. Loud. |
April 2010. Gosh... seven years old. Moving up to Holy Trinity this year. Bright, noisy, grumpy, giggly, cuddly. Everything you'd want of a daughter really. And she (mostly) gets on with Hatty now too... |
September 2009. Summery stuff, lots of caravan. Abby is actually a real pleasure to be with now - as long as she gets her own way... When she doesn't, it's terrible twos all over again... |
March 2009 - just after the best snowfall in years. Still heavily in the High School Musical phase. Less stroppy, more considered, head disappearing in books. Good! |
September 2008. Abby is a Giraffe. And precocious, noisy, disobedient, prone to tantrums, frustration and general mayhem. And we love her for it. |
Dec 2007. Abby has started at our local infant's school, is doing really well with her reading (which she loves) and generally having a lot of fun. Still behaving like a psychotic adolescent mind, but ho hum... |
May 2007. School looms at the end of the summer, and not a moment too soon. We no longer smile at her 'developing personality', we just deal with her 'personality'.... |
July 2006. No longer a child, more a small adult with no common-sense and a desire to drive others to distraction by talking, talking more and then doing some more talking. Particularly the 'Why?' word. |
Oct 2005. Abby has just passed her 3rd birthday and exhausted us both with a series of parties. There is no more demanding a guest than the three year old in search of a 'party bag' |
Feb 2005. The 'character assertion through extreme tantrum' stage. Terrible twos, pah, the only terrible aspect of this is the physical pain Al and I are suffering from stifling our laughter at each bout of raging.... |
July 2004 Abby is a fully-fledged little girl. And in the last 6 months we've taken her skiing, dragged her around Dorset, various weekends away with friends...and she's (mostly) been a delight |
As part of the general revamp of the site I'm catching up with this again - and these are pictures from 8-14 months odd. When Abby really started to be a person. And really let you know about it.... |
4 months after I last updated this and about a zillion photos later - aren't digital cameras just wonderful things. I haven't been too discerning about which pictures are here, a quick scan through and 'Yep, that one, that one, that one........' |
Variety of pictures (mostly) taken over Abby's second two months - so these are still vaguely chronological. There's a few of Abby with Harry, her only cousin on the F-G side. |
Eight weeks later. Those who ask about the sleepless nights, who tell you your life's going to change for the worse....I have to wonder about their relationship with their children. I don't have superlatives to describe the experience |
Some pictures taken within the first day of Abby's existence. I'm surprised any of these came out at all as I hadn't slept for > 50 hours when most of them were taken. |
Pictures taken in Abbys first week. Which was predictably dominated by feeding, nappychanging, screaming and a very small amount of sleeping. |