Stamps foot

Dot writes: I was writing a post to explain where we are (Norfolk) and what we are up to (trying to make Hugh eat something) but I’m typing one handed with Frank on my knee and somehow I accidentally deleted the whole thing. So I’m giving up in disgust for the present. See you soon.

Testing

Dot writes: am I the only parent who gets desperately nervous before developmental tests? I know they’re meant as a help – an opportunity to pick up any problems so the nice HSE people can say “we see your child would benefit from the early intervention programme, but we’ve just cut the funding” – but [...]

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Janus child

Dot writes: yesterday was awful, awful, awful. Hugh woke at 5.25 (not wet, no apparent reason) and was in a foul mood all day; every possible activity was served with a lavish garnish of crying, moaning and whinging. For example: he came in from a walk, played with a toy aeroplane for five seconds apparently [...]

This little piggy…

…had lots and lots and lots of milk, and thought YUM.

Paradox

Ken writes:
If God does not exist, then it’s not the case that if I pray my prayers will be answered. I do not pray. Therefore God exists.
I came across this today in discussion of the paradoxes of material implication. The interpretation of the conditional ‘if I pray, my prayers will be answered’ is at issue. [...]

Dot wonders…

…how people with full-time jobs are supposed to keep up with all the admin needed to hang on to daily life? I sometimes feel it’s a day’s work just to be an adult, own a car and live in a house, even before you get round to cleaning it or cooking dinner. In the last [...]

Enormobabe

Dot says: babies are supposed, as a rough guideline, to double their weight by six months. Frank has almost managed it at eight weeks: 13lb 8.5oz / 6.125kg today (adjusted to allow for nappy etc). I remember worrying a bit when Hugh had the same massive weight gain and being reassured that he would slim [...]

Sir Hugh and the Field of the Burning Fowl

Dot writes:
[A mother (for example, the mother of two small boys when her husband is away) scales vast mountains and deep canyons of emotion, solves problems of fiendish complexity, and draws on profound wells of courage, endurance and baby-wipes. But somehow, when she tries to tell people the details of her intense, absorbing experiences, they [...]

Boy seeks Dad

Dot writes: Ken has been away since first thing yesterday and isn’t back until tomorrow afternoon. Hugh has been taking it surprisingly well considering the passionate attachment he has been showing towards his father ever since Mum got taken over by that boring baby. He does seem to understand that Ken is not around and [...]