How to Scare a Baby (unintentionally)

We don't go out much, so we thought we'd treat ourselves to a car wash.

W: What are we in for?
Me: The full works - double foam wash, wheel scrub, full wax and chasis clean.
W: Pushing the boat out eh?
Me: The car gets dirty on the open road.
W: (suppressing laughter) The M3 to Basingstoke is not 'the open road'. You make it sound like Route 66.
Me: And?
W: Well, it's not is it?
Me: A guy can dream.

W manoeuvres the car into position and we watch as foam sprays the side of the car. Then it's the turn of the brushes. J, in his car seat, looks worried.

W: Don't worry. It's just a car wash. It's making everything nice and clean.

J is not convinced.

W: (nudging me) Look at this will you. Poor little man.

Me: (looking around at J) Don't worry Mister. It's OK.

J looks uncertain, apprehensive even.

W: Now I know how they make children look frightened in those disaster movies. They film them in a car wash, then green-screen it and add the appropriate background.

Spielberg's got nothing on our (inadvertent) techniques.

One Long Streak of Baby

It's been a while since I last posted and so many things have happened. One thing hasn't changed though - at the risk of getting too schmaltzy, we still marvel every day at the way J grows and develops.

Me: It is OK that we 're so rapt with everything he does?
W: Of course, he's our little man.
Me: But other parents do it too don't they?
W: Almost certainly.
Me: I mean, it's not as if I'm booking him into a top university just yet or anything...
W: He will develop as he develops.
Me: But... he's so aware of everything around him, so inquisitive...
W: He is that... but may be it's standard for most babies... he's doing very well. Our little precious...

We watch him doing something delightful for a minute or two...

Me: And look at the size of him.
W: That, I can't get my head around.
Me: How did he get so long?
W:  My 'little' baby.
Me: Not so little now...