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I can't believe that Amelie is 11 months old already! We have had another month of milestones and mischief as she continues to make her presence felt. The big news is that her first teeth have finally broken through. They had been basically visible beneath her gums for months and all the other signs were ...
Eight months old today! A photo posted by Tom Briggs (@diaryofthedad) on Jul 22, 2016 at 11:08am PDT Once again, I'm a week or so late with my monthly update on Amelie's progress. It just goes to show how quickly time passes - particularly in a baby's first year. So anyway, Amelie is now eight months old ...
"Once you label me, you negate me," said the philosopher Kierkegaard once upon a time. Let's skate over the fact that I only know them thanks to Wayne's World. Although he was probably using these immortal words to articulate the profound folly of those who base what they say about others on relatively limited information and understanding, that's ...
It recently struck me that I haven't written much about Xander of late. How rude! Dylan's long-awaited achievements of speaking and sleeping in a proper bed have dominated rather. So the littlest member of the household has taken a back seat. Well this post is going to be all about him. So how's the little fella ...
An update at long last, dear reader! Kate and I have both been stupidly busy writing copy for a book in our free time of late; I could tell you what the subject matter is, but if I did I'd have to kill you. Suffice it to say that given the topic, the fact that ...
I'm Tom Briggs. A proud dad of three and, somehow or other, the writer of a multi-award-winning dad blog.
I've been writing Diary of the Dad since 2010 and it's gone from a small hobby to my full-time job.
I still have the same enthusiasm for this blog as I did when I wrote my first post and hope you enjoy reading my musings as much as I do writing them.
