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Dear Peach,

It has come to my attention that there are few and far between photos of you looking straight at the camera. You are after all cheeky and like to turn away at the last minute. Since I finally got a nice face on I thought I’d write you a letter.

You are almost 23 months old and you are our cheeky delicious girl. You make me smile constantly, sometimes because you’re adorable, sometimes because you’re sneaky. You can say so many words. I wrote out a list but it got ridiculously long and while I was writing it, you kept saying new ones! It was the list that just kept growing. Suffice to say, you are now speaking a lot. My favourite phrases at the moment are “Oh NO, the boy is sad, HE’S CRYING, on no, BOY IN THE WRAP! BOY HAVE BOOB! He’s HUNGRY!”, “You do it mama!” (after I politely ask you to do a task), “PWIYAAAAAAAA” (said only in a screaming voice after asked what your name is) and “Cooking some toast now, I am do it”. You surprise me with how clever, how passionate, how defiant and how loving you are. A few days ago you told me you loved me for the first time without prompting and without me saying it to you first. I had just come into the room and sat on the edge of the bed when you ran over, threw open your arms and yelled “I WUV YOU”. I could have died and gone to heaven on the spot. Today you got a black pen and drew ALL OVER our stool and a patch of carpet, I was very upset and told you that you had to clean it up. When I handed you a wet cloth you threw it back at me and said “NO! You do it mama” then ran away LAUGHING. When you eventually came back and helped me clean it you worked hard huffing and saying “Oh no, it’s broken, it’s drawing, sowwy” and I forgave you right away.

You are my little Peach and you make me a better person. I love you.

And for Tala!

On Sunday, one of our family friends, Natala, who I have known as long as I can remember came to visit and to meet Priya.

Tala brought with her a present for each of the babies from where she works, Eeni Meeni . When Tala gave Peach this outfit P asked to take her shirt off and put it on but once she was half naked she ran away as fast as she could and wouldn’t let us dress her in it! I think she thought it was hilarious because we wanted her in it so badly.

Today I wanted to email some photos to Tala showing what the dress looked like on P so I pulled it out and tried again. This time Peach didn’t want to take it off! She was so smitten with her reflection in her new dress and kept saying “Nice! SHOW DADA!”.