Look at this picture

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I just had to write a post around this picture of AJ. I have posted it all over Facebook and shown it to everyone I could but it needed to go in the blog too. My aunt Paula, AJ and Otto’s great-aunt (she won’t like that!) took it. I think it is just an amazing pic of any child but as it is my little girl it makes it that much more special. Thanks Paula.
And as you can see from the pic, AJ is on fine form. She is not often as serene as she appears in the pic – full giggles is her preferred mode.
I have been away for ten days or so. I have been torn from the very bosom of my family and had to endure the horrors of some days in Madrid, Mexico City and the plushest of plush hotels in Cancun. It is a very hard life!
But to be perfectly honest, getting back and having multiple cuddles from Fo, kids, dog, Mum and assorted beings is where it really is at.

this was the view from my hotel room, which was pretty amazing

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but the view from my own back door stands up against the view of anywhere in the world

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and here is a pic of Otto, shortly after having been awarded his full cubs regalia, one of the very few times he has a straight face in a photo, but being a full-blown cub is a very serious business

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