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Sylvia is quite possibly the only combined doctor/ballerina in the country. Her specialism is ‘getting babies out’ involving some rather rudimentary surgery using a wooden spatula and pair of tweezers.

So, the ad hoc blogging is more ad hoc than even I imagined. Anyway, the Hughes/Quinsee household is only days away from a much-needed break in the US. We’ll spend a day or 2 in Connecticut for 4th July and then head off to Block Island with Paul, Deb and Isobel. We just had a [...]

OK, so its actually 19 months right now but lets cast our minds back … not an easy thing to do with a rapidly developing toddler. Also, the Mac is back so there are photos. Sylvia rapidly got over her nasty chest infection and then of course both parents got it. However, we were all [...]

We have now graduated to the rank of ‘professional parent’. This happens when your first offspring reaches their 1st birthday but you also know this has happened because you don’t flinch at the prospect of a room full of other peoples babies (and their parents!). Other signs include always carrying an emergency banana (even into [...]

This month Sylvia has mostly been … wobbling around with her walker when she should be crawling, bum-shuffling, waving/pointing/reaching (not sure which), throwing her drink around, dropping various food items, bashing things together, loving peep-o, roaring (!), reading/eating books, throwing herself backwards and passing things back and forth. We have been to see Le Tour, [...]