Pilgrim Soldier

Yesterday was a day that started and finished with a first! Sian is now almost 2½ and gets funnier, smarter and cheekier by the day. However, yesterday was a special day!

She is something of an art freak and loves scribbling, gluing, sticking stickers and desperately wants to paint! Normally her artist talent is firmly in the impressionist art-form as I have no idea what she is drawing, but yesterday morning she drew a picture of her grandma & grandad. Whilst her grandad was initially a face she scribbled and scribbled all over it (he has a beard!) but it her picture of her grandma that was fantastic as it was clearly a person with head and body and arms and legs! This was a first and we are very proud!

The other first though was even more special. We were having our dinner, just the 3 of us and Sian decided she had had enough. She came over to me and gave me a big hug and I told her I loved her! She said something and then I passed her to Zoe whispering to tell her mummy that she loved her! As I gave her to Zoe she said “lubber you” which we suddenly realised was what she had said to me as well! Only those of you who have children can possibly understand what that felt like as it is the first time she has ever said “I love you”! We are still talking about it and she said it a couple of times today as well! Parenthood is so wonderful!