Life has (very suddenly) become even more hectic now that Ben is mobile. It seemed like he was trying for months to lunge forward into a crawl and then in the space of 2 weeks, he was crawling, sitting, standing, cruising along furniture…and teething! Needless to say, the added excitement for him together with 2 new teeth (total 8 ) has meant some seriously sleepness nights in the York household.

It’s starting to dawn on me that my time at home with Ben is coming to end. Emotionally (together with the fatigue), I often feel like a frayed nerve when I see little things that mean he is learning to be independent too - choosing solid food over breastfeeding, wanting to crawl off and play with something that has caught his eye, wanting to be held by other people instead of me. Sigh. I know I know…all these things must happen *Timbit wipes a tear from her eye*