“Early intervention”! I am not sure I knew this term before we had Coraline. It's such a familiar term now.
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“This time two years ago we didn’t know what to expect, just that you’d be a lovely girl. And you are a lovely girl. More lovely than we could ever have imagined.”
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Long weekend visiting Spanish friends
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This day last year was our wedding celebration party for 200 guests, after our smaller wedding itself two days before.
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In Kevin’s words, “I can’t believe how lucky Liz is - 1 year already”
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To build on copying the sounds Coraline makes, which I wrote about yesterday, I learned at the talk I went to that we can expand a sound she can make.
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I now copy whatever Coraline does in terms of her sounds.
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Kevin has high expectations of what she’ll eat (this week it’s various things + sorrel!)
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Coraline at twenty three months old
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It's all about perspective. I had two situations recently which have really symbolised our choice in this.
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Kevin is spontaneous and a rule breaker; I am a planner and a rule abider! The combination works rather well
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We are now working on how to get down from and out of something backwards (instead of forwards).
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Whenever our neighbour Margaret sends us pictures of Coraline on their days together, Coraline is beaming, and shining off the page. You can just feel how full of happiness she is.
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We have seen huge progress in this the past month, with Coraline climbing right over our legs and pulling herself up a lot. She can even crawl up a step on her own now. It’s good to capture what she’s up to now at 22 months.
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At the park with our neighbour Margaret today
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I think when you’re happy and delighted, that frequency you’re on just comes back to you from others, as they respond in kind.
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The Down’s Syndrome Association course was on Early Development, run by the Services Director. It was all about how children with Down’s Syndrome learn, and language and communication.
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After six months or so of persuasion, I convinced Kevin to agree to Coraline getting the tiniest of trims!
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I like the capturing of moments in life, and the beauty of the everyday, hanging out.
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Sangitaa said to me, “even though we’ve never met, I’m going to talk to you as if I’ve known you all my life”.
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