― Archel (Archel), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Sunday, 31 December 2006 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/147/340259556_fd5ef5b113.jpg
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 07:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 12:25 (seventeen years ago) link
CONGRATULATIONS ARCHEL FAMILY!
I did wonder about you at one point during the hoilday, you know.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link
I managed to sleep from 3am until 9am today thanks to Matt doing early morning feeds, hurrah! Alice and I may even venture out later on to celebrate my relative lack of tiredness.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:39 (seventeen years ago) link
Apologies for the confusion; I could call my kids by their middle names, if you like - Galvin and Greer. But that makes them sound like sheet music publishers from the turn of the 20th century.
Do you want to see something sad? Do you promise not to forward to Social Services? Ava, the morning after clocking herself on the edge of a chair (check out the shiner on her left eye):
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/340782436_f8f00f3207.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 13:59 (seventeen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Stop it with the Ava and Tallulah confusions!
Mine were first!
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 2 January 2007 23:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― luna (luna), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh, bless!
Ava's eye really coming on a treat now - will post some more pix to Flickr when I get the chance. She'll love me for this when she's 13.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 09:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 09:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 13:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I just recovered from a 24-hour stomach flu that had me puking every hour or two. I don't know what I would have done if my husband couldn't have stayed home with me, it was miserable. I lost six pounds and I was already underweight. I think my milk production went down, we tried giving Louis cow's milk and he was totally not having it! Everyone is fine now though.
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:07 (seventeen years ago) link
Shiner, day four:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/155/344624551_159b47b473_m.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Teeny, man, that's so crap. Hope you recover quickly. :-( I've been having mad crazy migraine attacks and they SUXOR. :-(
― nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:45 (seventeen years ago) link
That's wonderful. I get Ava to sleep that easily maybe one night in six or seven.
(So, are we staying in the sandbox? I think we should. It feels a bit like lingering in the pub when everyone else has gone to the gig that was the original reason for meeting up.)
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 January 2007 09:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― luna (luna), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned T.Rifle (Ned T.Rifle), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 09:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Ha - it's all about routine and things have been a lot better in the last month. "Dummies and puppies?" Ava asks as I'm towelling her down post-bath; her cot contains a few pacifiers (yes, we'll phase 'em out eventually) and a couple of plush dogs, y'see. And off she goes.
Wearing her mum's specs:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/164/386827890_6340eaf7f3.jpg
Out in the snow:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/188/383710319_e7168e6806.jpg
Tallulah gets ready for snow outing:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/66/383706273_03a6352d92.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:25 (seventeen years ago) link
AWWW AWWW AWWWWW AWWWWWWWWWWWWW
you just broke me
― emsk ( emsk ), Monday, 12 February 2007 14:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Meg Busset (Meg Busset), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― PPlains (PPlains), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link
Alice and I walked a very long way in the rain this morning for her first round of immunisations, only to find that the appointment card we'd been sent was totally wrong and we were supposed to book with our own GP (two minutes walk) after all. Argh. Still, defers the agony...
Question: how do you implement a 'routine' while still feeding on demand (and when feeds are demanded at fairly random intervals)? Alice slept from 6.30pm until midnight last night, neatly missing any bedtime routine window we might have had. And I hate to wake her up when I don't know when we're next going to get any peace...
― Archel (Archel), Monday, 12 February 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Monday, 12 February 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.douglasandlisa.com/sterling/s151.jpg
― Douglas Wolk (Douglas), Monday, 12 February 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Your site reminds me that I need to take pix of Ava in the bath (she's often at her hilarious best when splashing about), in monochrome (that great Jan 13 one!) and I need to take more videos.
Ava still pronounces her "L" as "W" despite Daddy's best efforts at instilling palatalisation ("watch my tongue - LuLu." "Yuyu!"). It's cute, we'll just leave it. Her command of numbers is still haphazard - one through twenty but rarely in order and she confuses 8 and 2 for some reason. She's a bloody sponge though - it's incredible to watch her absorb all this stuff and chuck it back at you.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 12 February 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link
Now that morning sickness has finally passed, even though we've had a scan and a teeny bump is emerging, I'm finding it really hard to remember that I'm pregnant, it's almost as if I'm in denial, which is very very odd. In 3-4 months time if I look back at this I'm sure I'll have a bitter chuckle to myself.
Still, 136 days until I go on maternity leave!
More fluff please! Douglas, that's such a gorgeous head of curls!
― vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 09:58 (seventeen years ago) link
I felt the same Vicky - mainly because I always imagined I was going to look enormously visibly pregnant from about 4 months onwards, which was far from the case. Plus I didn't have any morning sickness to speak of and generally felt 'normal' most of the time, so it was very easy to forget, sometimes.
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link
Just go with the flow. She's still young and thus not open to much *coaxing* (in my opinion). But I did make sure that I would do the feeding in the same place and would also put her beside (with the telly on, so she got used to noise) after the feedings in the evening. That way she more or less got the hang of "night time is sleepy time."
Ophelia has been extremely clingy (after Japan). It's a bit difficult as I want to do my work in the shop. But it's flattering as well of course.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/153/388986714_8facf31e5a.jpg?v=0
Yo peeps
― nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 13 February 2007 10:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:17 (seventeen years ago) link
Ava is 2 today and that was supposed to be a little sequence of photos from birth to recent.
Here are the other two, FWIW...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/122170862_d37490f4d5_m.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/175/383716432_d04dde8cb1_m.jpg
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:19 (seventeen years ago) link
So her birthday is on Valentine's day? That's so sweet and befitting for a cute girl like Ava!
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 12:23 (seventeen years ago) link
lou's gone all mellow and snuggly lately:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/381877678_ee1d5bce87.jpg
― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― nathalie (stevienixed), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh teens, I want to smooch that handsome boy. What a sweet face.
― luna (luna), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Meg Busset (Meg Busset), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― luna (luna), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Good luck Meg! If all the sex doesn't tire you out, try walking up and down stairs a lot.
― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 14 February 2007 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link