Friday, 7 August 2020

Too Hot Day

Jacob, my son. It is your second summer in this world. The most recent changes that have emerged in you is that you try to climb over barriers, you lift your little leg on and try to pull it over. 

I sit with you on the sofa and we watch word learning videos on YouTube. Also when you fall over you put your hand in the way to stop your head hitting the ground. You seem to like outside more than inside, perhaps because there is more to explore. 

You also like to open and shut cupboard doors over and over and over again and to push your toy car over and spin the wheel around. It was while you were a young toddler that a dockside warehouse full of Ammonia Nitrate exploded in Beirut, Lebanon. The blast was so powerful that it created a mushroom cloud and a small localised earthquake. 

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