My journey first through pregnancy, babyworld and now toddlerdom
Call me crazy, but I have decided to set myself a bit of a challenge for 2012: taking a photograph for every day of the year. I hope that the challenge won’t prove too hard, as I imagine that I will be taking a fair few photographs once gyermek arrives anyway, if Baby O’s arrival is anything to judge by!
So as not to bore you all senseless, I’ll aim to try and publish the photos in batches of a few days at a time.
Day 1:
Photo © English Mamma
Wish me luck!
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 9,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Photo by Sascha Grant (Flickr Creative Commons)
Like last year, I’ve decided to round up the past year, month by month, and see how 2011 went.
- In January, I decided to get my blogging mojo back by taking part in WordPress’s Post A Week 2011 challenge. Hmmm, it didn’t really go so well for me: by early April I had already skipped a week and then I was silent for the first two weeks in July, and the less about early September the better… One of my favourite posts that month was What’s your style, where I discussed the various different parenting books available.
- The following month, I admitted to being a grammar snob, documented some of Baby O’s teething troubles and embarked on a photography course online.
- Then on to March, in which I changed the design of my blog, tried to discover a strategy to stop Baby O’s new biting habit and got pushy and snagged a place for Baby O at preschool.
- In April, I got very excited about Apple products and POP clothes, and wondered whether Baby O would be walking properly before his first birthday.
- Baby O transitioned into Little O as he turned one in May, started walking and began to say some sounds that could be recognised as words, he learned to stop biting all and sundry and wanted to start feeding himself.
- June was a busy month for us – Little O starting at preschool, learning to communicate more and more, me (secretly) going through the early stages of pregnancy, us spending a long weekend in Budapest, during which Little O had his worst illness yet – but a quiet one on the blog…
- In July, I had an evening of celeb spotting (two in one night!) and updated my blog post on what do to in Stockholm with a little one.
- In the following month, I revealed that I was pregnant, wrote up Little O’s birth story and had a bit of a rant.
- During September, I reached the halfway point in my pregnancy, shared our progress in the Relationship SOS challenge and laughed at some spam.
- The next month, we bought a new stroller and a potty for Little O to test out and I discovered Polyvore.
- In November, I started to feel a little down, with too many things getting on top of me, but then the Gallery challenge for 11.11.11 lifted my spirits, and I finished the month with some pearls of wisdom that I had learnt!
- And in the final month of the year, I got a bit concerned about Klout, realised it was time for Little O to have a haircut and, of course, celebrated Christmas.
So, there we go; that was 2011. And now let’s see what 2012 holds in store.
