Eleven months and twenty seven days...

... and two house moves, two lots of surgery, and god knows how many sleepless nights later, here we are, approaching Alice's first birthday. This time last year I was being scanned and poked and prodded by various consultants, and now the object of all that scrutiny is a person in her own right. It still terrifies and amazes me that we can cause whole new people to happen. By having sex! Crazy.