Fun and laughter

This is my baby! I love her to bits and am so enjoying how her little personality has been developing. She is at the stage where she loves to play games; games of crawling chase, or being pounced on and tickled. She just squeals with delight and giggles uncontrollably and she has that sense of anticipation now too. You can see it as her eyes get wide and her grin starts, revealing all those little teeth...I could just eat her up! I think it's the best sound in the world, children's laughter, there's nothing contrived or fake in any way about it, it's just real and honest and contagious and makes me feel happy.

It still amazes me that for such a long time I really didn't want to have children, that I really didn't 'get' that they were little people, not just a baby or child. I didn't have a clue. I'm so glad that I changed. It's hard work sometimes, but they have made my life so much fuller and richer than I ever could have known or expected. The sacrifices that we have to make are more than made up for.

I love them unconditionally and always will.