Your Daddy!

Darling Baby Kay - I have decided today to put down a few little things that you might like to read about your Daddy when you are older. You are still so very small, but growing faster and bigger every day and there is so much I am afraid will get forgotten on this journey with you as you get older, so this will help for some of those things to stick.

• Every night from I stopped nursing you, and when he is not away with work, Daddy gives you your last feed at night upstairs in the rocking chair in your nursery. When he puts you down to sleep he always tells you he'll be back in a wee bit to make sure you are ok, and he always does. Sometimes you are already asleep, but some nights it is as if you were waiting on him so as not to disappoint him - and you give him a wonderful tired, happy smile and then snuggle your face into Moo and go to sleep.


• Your Daddy takes you swimming every Saturday morning and you love it! You pootle about in the pool with the other Mummy's, Daddy's and babies and you are not remotely phased when you do swimming under water or get splashed. You are a real little waterbaby already!


• Daddy reads to you every night before you go for your bath - your favourite book is 'That's not my penguin' and you know to turn the pages and look for the little bit of fabric on the page to feel. You are so clever, my darling.


• I have never seen a little face light up the way your face does when Daddy gets home from work - you are so full of love and happiness, and it is the highlight of both your days when you see each other.

He is always so kind and patient and loving with you; he walked the floor with you when you were born and we were still learning how to settle you; he takes you up to see the chickens and the calves at Granda's farm; he explains to you the results on the football on Match of the Day. You are his princess and he is already your hero.