oh the places you'll go beautiful girl {2016}

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oh the places you'll go beautiful girl {2015}

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we heart preschool

Last summer I felt so apprehensive about preschool... for the simple reason that I wasn't really ready to let my first-born baby go just yet. He was more than ready. We knew we had chosen a preschool that we were 100% happy with. But caring for him had been my job for his entire life, and I felt so weird about missing out on so much of his day-to-day life, of his development, and all the cuddles and smiles and laughs that he'd be having that I didn't get to be a part of.

To say our little man has blossomed this past year would be an understatement. Preschool has given him, and us, everything we had hoped for and more. It has prepared him, and me, for the even bigger step of 'big school' looming on the horizon. It has shaped him and moulded him in such lovely ways.

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preschool class of 2015

This past weekend our beautiful boy graduated from his preschool. It was a lovely celebration of his time there, and a day that made him feel super proud of himself, and us even prouder of the little boy he is becoming.

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from the other side

Handing your children over to another person and walking away is always hard. We all know that it is part of them growing up, part of us growing as parents too, and that it is necessary; but it's hard. Because for so long, when they are teeny, we make every single painstaking decision for them. The decisions feel so hard and so scary at first, and like such a massive responsibility that we're constantly terrified we might get wrong. But over time we get used to making all those choices, to always being there to love, to cuddle, to teach, to discipline, to know that everything in their little world is just the way we would like it to be.

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four and a half months

Four and a half months... that is the time we have left with life as we know it. The countdown is on and before I know where I am at I will be packing off my biggest baby to start big school and my littlest baby to start preschool. 

I have this overwhelming feeling of time running away from me, an all too familiar feeling since becoming a parent it would seem. Time keeps racing on, and right now I feel like I'm desperately grabbing at its tail, willing it to slow down. 

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oh the places you will go

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our gang

Ever since he was born

my beautiful boy and I have had a little gang.

It felt like him and me against the world for a long time.

We let Daddy join our gang sometimes 

when we was home in the evenings and at weekends,

but we spent most of our time together as a pair,

I did everything for him

and he was my entire world.

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your thirty-fourth month

We had always thought you were the most amazing boy ever.

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his next steps

We are in the very fortunate position 

that since our son was born

I have been able to stay at home with him.

I have relished every second with him

watching him change and grow

watching him learn new skills.

I've been there for first steps and first words

and I wouldn't trade that for anything.

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