Liam is making tremendous leaps forward these days with being able to move around at will, so long as it doesn’t require walking. He loves to walk along holding objects and then he drops to the ground to get to the next object and then start to walk along again. He is so quick now […]
1999 July Diary
Liam hasn’t yet learnt to crawl but he is finally starting to make some serious attempts. Every time he goes to Grandma’s and Grandpa’s he makes great progress but this is quickly forgotten when he is back home and has three adults to pick him up whenever he starts to whinge. Every day though he […]
1999 June – Rosie’s Diary
Every Mothers’ Day all the Darby’s go back to Dwellingup for one of the two Darby Picnics. This is where my parent’s generation mainly remember being brought up and we have been coming back here for over 30 years now on this day. First stop is always at the Dwellingup Cemetery to visit Great Grandma […]
1999 March – Rosie’s Diary
1999 – Sunday – 21st March Up early again to fly out at 7.30 a.m. The flight was a little bumpy but you were extremely well behaved. I fed you when we took off and again as we were landing. You didn’t have any problems with your ears or vomiting. Aunty Nola, Nanna and Pop […]
1999 February Diary
1999 – Monday 22nd February I have decided to experiment more with solids. We started tonight by giving you half a teaspoon of mashed potato and pumpkin. You moved your mouth up and down pushing the food in and out with your tongue and the whole time with this inquisitive frown on your face. Most […]