The Life of Boo, My Sunday Snapshot

Today I’m celebrating the Life of Boo. My Youngest daughter has finished her last exam and finished her school. She has been at the same school since year one. She attended nursery and Reception in another school before we moved house. She has her own style and is looking forward to getting a funky hairstyle now that she’s left school. Meantime she has the most gorgeous long hair and I’m so glad I sneaked this photo of her earlier this year.

We haven’t celebrated the end of school, she’ll do that on Tuesday with a trip to Alton Towers. But, we are planning a family meal out when she gets her results. She feels like she’s done quite well in her GCSEs. I’m proud of her whatever.

I wanted to mark this special time with a collage of photos from the Life of Boo.

We have a photo of baby Boo. She was a meconium baby and wasn’t breathing when born, but it took them seconds to clear her airways. She had a febrile convulsion when she was two years old which scared the life out of me. She is hypermobile and possibly has EDS like her sister, but she’s not had too many problems apart from her knees. She is comfortable wearing knee supports.

The second photo is from a day in the park when she ate her sister’s sweets, but she looks like butter wouldn’t melt. The third shows a day on the beach which was a school trip in reception. The year before we’d gone to the same place but Boo had been poorly and we spent the whole day (which was really wet and miserable) in a café with me drinking coffee and Boo colouring or sleeping on me. It was a nightmare and I took the GP when we got home where she was diagnosed with pneumonia. So, this day at the beach a year later was a welcome re-visit to abolish the nightmares.

We have a picture of Boo in the park in her buggy looking really happy and another with her face painted. This photo was in a collection of photos I entered for a competition to win a holiday at Center Parcs.

When Boo was nine (and I was well) I took her to London for the day. We had to catch the train at 6am! She had a cookery class with Bee Berrie and we came home with a ton of cakes that she had baked. It was fun and I loved the professional photos that were taken of her.

I’ve included a school photo of her when she went into year 5 in 2016, it feels like yesterday! And the last photo is how we see Boo most days, only it’s mostly on a tablet now rather than a laptop. She is never seen without her headphones. This photo was taken on her 13th birthday and I have a post celebrating her birthdays from the age of five to fifteen.

My little Boo is now 15 and is looking forward to college in September. We celebrate her 16th birthday next month and she wants clothes and make up and a day out with her friends. She does have a good friend group which she has developed since we moved house in 2013. Suffering from anxiety and possibly on the Autistic Spectrum she had struggled her way through school, but her friends have kept her going. I’m sure her future will be bright.

Congratulations on finishing this chapter of your life Boo, I’m so very proud of you xx

N.B. We called her Boo before she was born, I didn’t find out if I was having a girl or boy. It has always been her nickname and we still call it her now. It was easy to choose it as her blog name as I didn’t want to use my children’s real names.