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And this is the very last photo of my one year old boy.

Dear Theo,

You are one. For one more day.

You are this tiny little person, only ONE. It sounds so young, so new. Just one.

I find it utterly unbelievable that at just one you are so very much you.

So very gentle and sweet. So very wild & rough.

I am in awe that you’ve already mastered articulating your desire.

That you know what you want, and you know how to get it.

You gently place your big hand on mine each evening and say “Mulk. Bed. Me”

You wake in the morning, eyes dancing and say “Out. Dere. Play. Me”

In parenting you I feel love so deep and aching.

Paralleled by a feeling of failure so deep and aching.

You are a wonder to me.

A constant surprise and mystery.

A challenge, changing, growing, difficult.

A treasure, smiling, soft & sweet.

I like you. Exactly as you are.

I love you. Always as you are.

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So this is another photo taken by Hannah while I was out. I can only assume the kids are still laughing about ‘foxy loxy’.

It’s so lovely to see a photo of Zen & Priya – Hannah is also busy ‘documenting delight’ and taking a photo every day this year. I think we should make an effort to get lots more of these two together.

You can check our her gorgeous blog with lots more of this cheeky boy here, Discovering the silver lining. Hannah makes lots of beautiful observations about motherhood and it’s so lovely to read her perspective.

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Today I woke to a text telling me a mama I was waiting on was in labour. It was 5:15 am so I crept out as fast as I could leaving two sleeping babes and their papa. I didn’t even think about the photo of the day. I crept back in between sleeping babes & papa late that night and after having driven home from NSW, the very last thing on my mind was their photo of the day. So when I realised the next day that a day had passed and I hadn’t snapped them. I got quite sad.

Enter: My beautiful sister in law Hannah, who I called last minute, who changed her afternoon plans to come hang out with my kiddos who… even snapped their photos for me! A better sister-in-law I couldn’t have asked for! When I posted on facebook lamenting that I’d missed a day she quickly let me know she hadn’t and here we go, a photo from Hannah. Her sweet two in between mine, apparently (Priya tells me) utterly engrossed watching The Fantastic Mr Fox (although she said it was called ‘foxy loxy’).