Being Maddie's Dad

Being Maddie’s Dad

Highlights and musings of a Dad and his daughter growing up.

Girl posing with old fashion microphone in black & white
Girl with bucket and spade on empty beach

  • Maddie seems to have recovered from her cold and the sun has come out so all in all things are looking up. Mette got these sunglasses today which only stayed on her face for about 1 sec at a time…

  • Ok so I was expecting to see abstract works of art coming home from nursery school, hand prints masquerading as calendars etc  but what I hadn’t counted on was the amount of viruses and bugs. Whilst most of the UK…

  • Ok, so we’re not rushing out to buy stair gates yet (which is just as well because we need to get 4 of them) but Maddie has shown the first signs of becoming mobile – at which point it has…

  • Ok so now Maddie has got teeth Mette has discovered just how painful breast feeding can be and so its bottles all the way from now on. This recent change seems to have had a surprising additional benefit though in…

  • Well having been away a week I was expecting Maddie to have changed a bit however with the exception of her top tooth being much bigger all seemed well. Even her first couple of days at nursery don’t seem to…

  • It’s official Maddie is now teething, above is one of the few pictures I’ve managed to get where you can see any of them. We were playing peek a boo which makes her giggle no end and you can see…

  • Yesterday we met up with our friends from our ante natal class. They’re a great bunch and it was good to see everyone but what was even more amazing was seeing Maddie playing with the other babies. There was real…

  • One of the things you notice when you have children is how cheap the clothes are. This you soon realise is a good thing as they grow out of them at a rapid rate of knots. I’m still finding clothes…

  • Wow how fast is this year going, anyway several swimming trips later and I now have the picture which should have gone with the last blog. She seems to love the water. Maddie continues to be a constant source of…

  • has had a couple of highlights both involving water. The first was the arrival of the rubber ducks which have transformed bathtime. Really hard to find but eventually found a set of 3 which Maddie loves. The other highlight was…