Another checkup with the health worker today and another clean bill of health. Marcail is now officially Continue reading→

Best of friends

It’s been over a week and a half since I’ve had enough time to draw breath and put some words down on paper.  We’ve been to the botanics and the museum, been on transatlantic live broadcast and gone to our first party, all since the last post.  Wow.

So, let’s kick off with a picture of a 7lb 13oz bundle of love having a friendly moment with Mia.  We have been really pleased how Mia has taken to Marcail, none of the jealousy that we were concerned might happen has come to pass at all.  Doglet has taken it all in her stride and shows real care and concern for Marcail.  Today when she came back from the park with Debs, hyper, she ran straight over to the moses basket to say “Hi!” and have a sniff.  Bless.

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I forgot to say the other week, well last week in fact, that Marcail had been to see the health visitor up at the surgery and had been weighed.  She came in at a rather pleasing 7lbs 6oz, which put her well ahead of her birth weight of 6lbs 13oz.  Well, mother and daughter were up there again today for another weight in and check up.  The results are in and she is now confirmed as Continue reading→

06:51:09 – middle of a dream, quite deep in, something to do with…, it’s gone.  BAM!  Screams from the living room, all hell breaks loose in my head.

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Wikkid, innit!

Apart from snotter, yesterday seems to have been a bit of an Ibiza DJ day for Marcail.  Aside from wandering around the house and garden on a photo shoot inspired by the James Blunt “Same Mistake” video, she got into the swing of it and threw some great shapes for the club dance floor, innit.

The last two days or so have been a lot better for us, thank goodness.  I don’t know if it has been colic, or if we’ve just not been effective enough and clearing windContinue reading→

… boogaloo.

Bliss in the garden

Another first.  We thought Marcail was getting a little milk spot just inside her nostril.  It would clear up in time, like the rest will.  Continue reading→

There really don’t seem to be enough hours in the day to do a job, have a baby, and write a blog.  If I was a woman then I could multi-task, of course, but I’m not so I just get grumpy if I try!  A lot has happened in a week though and Marcail is really coming on as a little personality in her own right.

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Three Weeks Today!

It’s been a while, I’m afraid, since I wrote anything.  It just seems like time flies by at the moment with barely a minute to actually do anything, let alone copy images off the camera, resize them and write a blog post.  Over the weekend Marcail had a bit of an unsettled period, so we didn’t get a lot of sleep.  Says he.  I get a great sleep compared to what Debs manages between feeding and being an attentive mother.  Saturday and Sunday we we trying to catch up on rest a bit, so we slept in till 11am both days.  Whilst that was bliss, don’t get me wrong, it’s still no substitute for getting some proper sleep in for the rest of the time.  Last night we were in bed to go to sleep by a quarter to nine.  I haven’t been in bed that early since I was seven!  Top Gear hadn’t even finished!  Alas, it was to no avail as madam decided nobody in this house should sleep until at least quarter to eleven!Continue reading→

Off to Peebles today to see Granny and a whole load of other people.  After a long discussion, we decided not to call Pickfords but to handle the removal of royal court for the day ourselves, a decision which we think was largely correct [well we would say that because I’m nearly as stubborn as Debs is], even if we’re not entirely convinced.  Quite surprisingly we were only about 20 mins late arriving (see I told you we were getting this parent thing licked) and even better, we were slightly less late than everyone else.Continue reading→