To go or not to go......

I missed football again on Saturday and we won 4-1 according to my dad and brother it was the best we have played all season.

It always seems to happen to when I dont go, now I'm thinking of writing to Simon Jordan the Chairman and asking if he wants to buy my season ticket back from me and give some sort of payment for not turning up and jinxing the team !!

Take the year we went travelling. I still bought the season ticket went to the first couple of games and then left to travel the world leaving the ticket with the hope of getting some money for the games that people used it. Didnt get much BUT we did get promotion through the play offs. So the season i'm not there we go up. When I was back I made an effort to get to quite a lot of games and well we got relegated on the last game of the season away to Charlton. No prize for guessing who was in the stands watching the game.....

Well I am going to the game on Saturday V Leeds so lets hope it's not me :-0

Baby News: Max has been great and is smiling all the time now his sleep pattern is good. He goes down after his bath at 7pm every night and then we are waking him at 11pm for a feed and he is going to about 3 or 4 on his own when he needs a feed and then we wake him again at 7am. Hopefully it wont be too long before he goes through.

He is also holding his head up really well so we have bought him a bebe pod and he loves sitting in it. Faye puts him in the chair in the mornings.



This is him relaxing on the bed.



Finally we have him playing with a friend. His friend Joel is 6 weeks older then him and Max looks like he has caught him up.



I will try not to leave it so long before the next post........

This is a test. I am using a new widget on the apple mac. More later

James

Daddy's Day

Hi yer, Sorry for the slight holiday from the blogging world but it's getting busier !

So as mentioned we never won the lottery we also never won when I put all the money on lucky dips for the Lotto draw. The only result is that I no longer have to keep the syndicate running. All the money has gone and I only ended up a couple of quid out of pocket. This is one reason why I wont do it. I always end up making up the money to get another lucky dip line and I'm also bound to put some money in for someone that can not get the money to me ontime or something. I was a lot tougher this time though because last time I was about £7 down. Oh well.

The title, right oh yeah, well today I had to take a day off work to look after Max because Faye went to visit some relatives and didnt want to take Max. So today was the very first time that I have looked after him during the day for any reasonable amount of time. I have looked after him for a night but that does not really count as he is sleeping for most of it.

My day started at 3am for the feed, Faye usually does all the night feeds if I have work the next day, It could of been Max's quickest feed yet but it felt like a long time to me. I went to the football and never got in until just before midnight and I dont know if you are like me BUT I need to relax if I have been out all night in the fresh air so I never went to bed until about 1am. So I'm up at 3am and get him fed in under half hour. He had all his feed (180ml) and was burped before going back to sleep. I have to say that last night was a great night for Max, he went from from 7pm - 3am and then I woke him at 7am !! Faye changed him while I stumbled off rubbing my eyes to get the next bottle of milk. He was fed and washed by 8 and that gave us a bit of play time so did that before putting him down for sleep and waving Mummy out of the door. The next few hours are a blur of preparing milk bottles, washing up, sterilising bottles and getting ready for a walk that Faye had arranged for me with her anti natal friend. To be honest I thought I was meeting all the girls and doing some big buggy walk with loads of mums so the thought of just Lauren was good and never filled me with fear and a strange sense of weirdness being with lots of new mums ! We did a huge walk all round Hampstead Garden Suburb and I saw loads of houses that just make you jealous. Saw Jonathon Ross's house, Richard and Judy were also on our walk route and there a few other famous people that live here. I puffed my way round talking about cars so thats not too bad. She is after a car and it had to be my nightmare car the 4x4 but oh well at least we talked about cars. Managed to get back at 2pm for Max's next feed and then it was play until 4pm at that point Faye came home and looked after us both ! I have managed to video lots of today and hopefully will be able to post a video of some of our day. It was great and I loved every minute of it. Can not wait until next time.

Max is 11 weeks old today.

Saw a thing about google doing stats for blogs so take a click over to this site http://www.measuremap.com/ I signed up today for it so we will see.

Footy News: I dont know what me and my Dad have done in a past life but we never deserved to have to watch Sheff Wed V Palace on Saturday just gone. It was terrible both teams were crap and the ref was the worst ref I have ever seen. My brother must of been a saint in a past life because he had the good sense not to go. (My Sister lives near there so at least we never had to come all the way home as well)

Jane over at slothblog must be glad she never went as well because she is a Wednesday fan (I think)

QPR last night was better and we won 2-1 but I'm really unsure of our manager Dowie at the moment, he just seems to make some very strange tatical choices.

Here is Max and the S is for Simmo

Cranky and dribbling

Well we have not won the lottery at work, we got about £ 25 from all our lines and putting that back into lucky dips for Saturdays draw.

Baby News:
Max is 10 weeks old this Wednesday and we have a feeling that he might even
be starting to teeth. We hope not because we have finally starting getting
him into some sort of routine but yesterday he was bit "cranky" and dribbling,
little bit like me after a heavy night to be honest, but after some
searching thought it might be his teeth so I rubbed his gums and man did he
start chilling and gave the biggest smile he has done yet !!!

This evening he seems fine so doubt it is his teeth.


This is us having a sing song.



Footy News:
The fan who threw his season ticket towards Middlesbrough manager Steve
McLaren will be allowed back into The Riverside. (The Sun)
See here

For punishment I think they should make him go Home and Away to watch Boro
!!!! boom boom

Viz letters (Thanks to Michelle for these)

Hats off to the England cricketers for their achievements in the Ashes this
summer, which rightly earned Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff BBC Sports
personality of the Year. Winning a two-team tournament against a nation with
a much smaller population once in every ten attempts, then never shutting up
about it makes me proud to be British.
Ben Hunt

The government tells us that we are eating too many pies and dying of heart
disease, then in the next breath they're telling us we are living too long
and there'll be no more pension money left for us. I wish they'd make their
minds up.
John

'Alton Towers - Where the magic never ends', or so the commercial says.
Imagine my disappointment when it closed at 7.30.
Colin Hill

I am married to a Taiwanese lady, and people often ask me if she was a
mail-order bride. I find this very insensitive. The Royal Mail lose around 2
million letters and parcels each year, and to suggest that I would trust the
delivery of my wife to them is insulting in the extreme. She was sent by DHL
next day delivery.
L Palmer, London

The record companies would have us believe that the money made by CD pirates
goes to fund the drug industry. But the money rock stars make from legal
record sales ends up in exactly the same place. When they stop breaking the
law, so will I.
P Boddington, Ringway

Peter Andre might look smug in all his wedding pictures, but I'd just like
to remind him that, as a Playboy reader, I have seen his wife's m!nge. He
hasn't seen my wife's, so who's had the last laugh?
P, Leeds

On holiday a few years back, I took part in a quiz and managed to reach the
final only to lose out after what I consider to this day, to be a correct
answer. The question asked 'What 'C' would you associate Jeremy Clarkson
with?' to which I confidently replied '*unt'. Not only was I told the answer
was incorrect, but I was asked by the holiday rep to leave the premises
immediately! Has anyone else experienced such appalling treatment whilst
holidaying with one's family?
Noel, Leeds

My friend's mum recently pointed out that I have the same ironing board
cover as her. Can anyone think of a more mundane and pointless remark to
make than this?
Alun Daniel

I'll never understand my neighbour. He has recently started wheel-clamping
his own caravan when he finds he has inadvertently parked it in his own
drive! I wonder if he is a sadist, a masochist or both.
Alan Thakray

Did anyone else feel that Mel Gibson's remake of the classic Life of Brian
wasn't anywhere near as funny as the original?

On the BBC website, I read with interest that some scientists in Australia
have discovered the smallest fish known to exist. They've obviously never
been to the Britannia Chippy on the Gloucester Road
Alan J., London

Hats off to the American police. They arrive at Michael Jackson's Neverland
ranch to arrest him a mere six months after he admits climbing into bed with
young boys on worldwide TV. Perhaps they should get some faster cars.
T Barnham, London

Could the Home Secretary explain to me how biometric checks on iris patterns
and fingerprints are going to help keep tabs on muslim cleric Abu Hamsa.
Les, Barnsley

How come rap artist Dr. Dre can use the 'N' word on his multi-million
selling albums and win a MOBO award, yet when I used it at my son's football
match I was asked to leave the park? Once again, it's one law for the rich
and another for the poor.
Reg Ashcroft, Bradford

The government says that there are nearly 50,000 people with HIV in Britain,
a third of whom do not even know that they have it. Is it just me, or is it
a bit harsh that the government know and haven't told the poor sods?
John Campbell, e-mail

Never mind ventriloquists like Keith Harris and Roger DeCourcey. What about
Professor Stephen Hawking? I saw him on telly blathering on about galaxies
for hours and I never saw his lips move once. Genius.
Mike Woods, e-mail

With reference to that series "Manhunt" where ex-Special Forces soldiers try
to hunt down Andy McNab. Why don't the producers include a couple of Iraqis
in the hunting team? They found the tw*t quickly enough the last time he
played hide and seek with them.
Shuggie, e-mail

Hats off to the witty burglars who stole my entire CD collection with the
exception of "There is Nothing Left to Lose" by the Foo Fighters. I hope
that when sentencing, the judge takes into account their splendid sense of
humour.
Chris Scaife, Jesmond

I see on the news that Lord Hutton says he is "satisfied that David Kelly
took his own life". He may not have liked Dr Kelly that much, but isn't this
taking gloating just a little too far?
Dave Owen, Edinburgh

I was extremely saddened to hear of Richard Whiteley's recent death. But I
was cheered to imagine his life support machine making the famous Countdown
"da-da, da-da, da-da-da-da! Booooooo!" sound as he took his final breaths.
Tripod

I never worry about the destination when I'm going on holiday. My dad is
Iranian and my mum is Irish, so I spend most of the time in customs.
Stan

What's all this nonsense about that 66-year-old Romanian woman being the
world's oldest mum? My mum's 77. Beat that.
Thomas J

Fingers Crossed

Well another rollover and most talk in the office involves what we are going to spend all our winnings on :-)

I have done a syndicate so gives us more chances to win. I dont mind sharing that sort of money.

Now what I did think though was that the odds are 74 million to 1 so if I could borrow 74 million and also had enough time to fill out all the numbers would I be on to a winner?

We did it last week and had 63 lines but only won £38 and so have reinvested that in more tickets this week.

Not sure how many lines this weeks syndicate will be put I am closing it early so that I can get to the lottery man before every man and his dog starts buying them. Let you know tomorrow.

I have now bought iLife and bought it from the new apple store in Brent Cross, the store is quite good but a bit narrow. I had a quick go on the new intel iMac but never really had a "proper" play and do anything that would test it. I will look to go again in a couple of weeks during the week so that I can spend a bit more time and talk to the Apple staff.

To be honest I have not really looked at iLife but I do love the iPhoto full screen editing and it does seem alot quicker. Will test out Garageband podcasting at some point and also iWeb as I want to see just how easy it is to use. Not happy about not being able to comment on the blog page but hope they sort that out. Bet it will only be available using .mac account though.

Max had some injections today for various things in both legs so a bit grizzly for once tonight but he has gone off to sleep now.

Baby Parade

Today was the gathering of babies from our NCT Anti Natal classes. Almost a full showing just 2 no shows.

Was really good, went to a a couples house (Rubys' mum and dads) and I ate cakes for the whole time. Max was good; as was all the babies actually.

Here is a photo of the babies in age order. Max is the youngest. You shouldnt have too much trouble spotting him. Unless your new to this blog !



I think Ruby, the oldest, is about 6 weeks older then Max but I will double check. Ruby just threw up all the time. I never seen anything like it. Really strange and apparently she is just a "throwing up" baby. Where some babies smile she flows puke with the odd smile every now and then. fascinated me for ages, she had a couple of changes and so did her parents.

Thats about it really. ALTHOUGH.....

Max is going to spend his first night alone in the nursery. I think I am waking him up with my snoring but then he wakes me up with his "snorting" so fair play I say. Why is it babies sound like little pigs?

He normally sleeps in his nursery for his naps and sleeps during the day and we only ever move him in to our room at 11pm for the night but we also think this is not a good idea because he is waking when being moved etc.

Our boy is growing so fast, going to be strange not having him right next to us.

Not done this for a while, only a taster though as not doing Joke or Footy today:

Fact of the day: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

Here is almost some proof. I can only get 16 precision places on the mac calc.




On this day: 22/1/1979: Public sector strike paralyses country
Tens of thousands of public sector workers have taken part in a day of action - the biggest mass stoppage since 1926 - in support of a claim for more pay.

The four major public service unions angry at the government's attempt to impose a 5% pay ceiling called out their 1.5 million members.

They included hospital workers, rubbish collectors, school caretakers, grave diggers and airport staff.
More from BBC Site

Bum Chutney

Nope not posted that to draw all the wierdos to this blog, unlike the ones finding Charlottes baby site, BUT we were all driving yesterday and just on the North circular we realised that the car in from was not a ghia but was in fact a bum chutney.



Not too sure I want to know the full story but you see some strange things on these London roads, just handy we had the camera in the car and YES I will get round to cleaning the front windscreen !!!

Went to see some houses we saw on rightmove in Berkhamstead but never saw anything we liked, only drove past rather then actually going inside them. Our house is having a few people round at the mment so thats good.

We then went over to Brent Cross and the Apple store will not be long now. It looked to me as though it was having the final bits done. I'm guessing next week. Wanted iLife so went into John Lewis but they never had it so I am going to order it online.

Tomorrow we have a get together in the afternoon of all the anti natel babies all 10 of them and parents so I will post the picture tomorrow of them all lined up.

Here is one we took yesterday of all of us using Photo Booth thermal setting. I really like it and it is now my desktop wallpaper. Tad scary on a 20" widescreen.

iLife '06 - Will be getting soon

I have been reading on the Apple sites about iLife06 and whilst I was very excited to start with about the new application iWeb now I am starting to think it is not as good as I first thought.

For starters you can not have comments on your blog page, not that I get that many but you have to be able to have them. I looked at Haloscan.com and thought great I can use that BUT it turns out you can not put your own HTML into the iWeb created pages SO that also screws up all my links and sitestats. You have to have a .Mac account to use the built in web counter function.

I have seen some of the web pages that have been created and they do look really good and all the users are saying that it is really easy and quick to use but does have a bit too many limitations.

I will get it though just for the boosted speed of iPhoto and also Garageband is updated and 1 thing I want to at least try this year is get more time on the guitar and try to record something.

I will also have a crack at some point at a video podcast and will also create an iWeb site that people can look at. Be good for movies and photos anyway. While I think of it the other thing will be that I can not blog from anywhere as I would have to use my computer and not just any internet connection.

Food question, What can I do with Capers. Seen a couple of receipes but lets have your suggestions as well. Need to cook for Nascot Dan at some point. Check out his site as he has some good news. He promised me that he will start to keep up to date with his blog.

Hull 1 Palace 2

Nick Barmby, Mike Dobson, John Prescott, Amy Johnson, The Beautiful South, Frankie Baldwin, Maureen Lipman. Your boys took one hell of a beating.

That was hard trying to get famous people from Hull !

From the biased commentary, I listened to BBC Hull over the internet, yeah we time wasted a bit at the end but Myhill in the Hull goal was the most mentioned player and the man also said we deserved the win. Thats good enough for me.

Come on the Palace, Shame Watford won but Sheff Utd drawing and Leeds losing to Brighton (Our biggest rivals) were good results.

Hull: Myhill, France, Cort, Collins, Lynch (Green 26), Price (Duffy 59), Andrews, Delaney, Barmby (Elliott 74), Fagan, Parkin.
Subs Not Used: Leite, Paynter.

Booked: Price, Barmby.

Goals: Parkin 25.

Crystal Palace: Kiraly, Boyce, Ward, Hudson, Borrowdale, Andrews (Freedman 77), Watson, Hughes (Riihilahti 86), McAnuff, Johnson, Macken (Morrison 84).
Subs Not Used: Black, Speroni.

Booked: Boyce.

Goals: Ward 9, Cort 24 og.

Att: 18,886

Ref: C Webster (Tyne & Wear)

Hull V Palace

Gutted I am in Hull and tomorrow Palace are playing them but I cant stay up here and see them. Wish the meetings I had yesterday were today and I could of stayed for the game but oh well would rather see Chosen One.

Will see Palace next week against Reading and also looking forward to coming back to this area and seeing us play Sheff Wednesday early February

Come on Palace lets beat those Tigers. Need to beat them so I can call my mates in Hull straight after. Dobbo is the main one I am looking to call, I have his number at the ready !

We are on a good run at the moment and I am sure we can win tomorrow but I have probably cursed them

Whats an intel chip doing in a Mac?

A whole lot more then it's ever done in a PC.

Apple marketing is brilliant.

As a few of you know I just got the iSight iMac G5 in October after sending the non iSight model back because they released the iSight model within 14 days of me getting it. Am I now bitter that they have released the new Intel models with claims of a speed boost of X2 on the iMac and X4 on the Powerbook, NAH. To be honest while I can not wait to get down the Apple shop (When is the bloody one in Brent Cross going to open?) and play with it to see the speed improvements, I learnt a long time ago though DO NOT TOUCH REV A products. I personally would wait for thr rev B models but if you can not hold off buying then read the support forum and see what people are saying. If you can wait then get the iBook or Mac mini for a taste of mac but I'm happy and sticking with my "Power Mac G5" They are still selling this model by the way and the Intel one is about £30 dearer.

I will be weighing up getting the new iLife package over the weekend, only £55, though because iWeb looks good for blogging. It looks as though iLife has been aimed a bit at blogging. Who knows what will happen if I get it but I feel a Video blog or podcast coming online soon.

The Macs are here to drawl over

I'm off up there North again to Hull and Manchester for a couple of days so going to spend my first night away from Max. Going to miss him but be glad of the sleep :-0

Here is a picture of Max, he is smilling all the time now and I'm going to miss his smile, these where taken at 22.40 yesterday just before his feed.

He is 6 weeks old today.



PS Anyone see whats NEW, will sort out a logo one day

New name

Yes I know and I will rename the blog soon so stop going on everyone, well the Howards recently :-)

Although hopefully I will be a Dad again so could just leave it for ages and ages but I will change it.

I want to try and do something in Paintshop that kind of crosses through the title and has the new one i.e. Palace Fan that IS NOW a Dad but struggling to get the time but hopefully will get something done soon.

Hang on in there !

London

Well we made it to Kings X and then to Camden Town Hall to get Max registered. The underground is not for pushchairs. It was not too bad but then there was two of us. We kept the name Max James and didnt change it for our own amusement. The best bit is it means we can now get our family allowance money :-)

Afterwards we went for a bus rather then try getting Max down the escalator. As it turns out it was quite a good plan because we went off down Oxford Street for a look at some shops I bought a little tripod for my camera for only £6.50 so result there (From Jessops), Looked in the Apple store and saw some good speakers for our iPods and the idea is to put them in the nursery so that we can play music to Max off the iPod in there. They did not have the one I liked in stock so when we got home I did some searching on the web and nearly everywhere is out of stock of them BUT the company I work for had them in stock so even managed to get a discount. Was quite shocked that we had them and never even looked at our website :-0 saw it when I was using pricerunner.co.uk, hopefully getting them on Tuesday.

This is a picture I stole off the internet of them:



Also saw this bloke chatting away very loud on his phone: For those that dont know him he is a presenter on T4 and sometimes a stand up comedian. He makes me laugh on a Sunday when he interviews bands anyway.



Now I'm starting to get sucked in to watching celebrityy (Now I am not sure that celebrityy is a word that you would associate with most of them) Big Brother. The 4th is just going in now. Some washed up actress from Baywatch. Lots of boos for all of them ! Chantle the non celebrityy will not find it too difficult because no one seems to know anyone anyway. More tomorrow......

Happy New Year

Not too much fun for us on new years eve. Bed at 8pm up at 10pm to feed Max, woken at 12 by loud fireworks followed by a quick kiss and a happy new year to each other. Actually not even sure we had a kiss but anyway we went back to sleep and was up again at 3am for another feed and again at 7am for his morning feed. Last year we got very drunk on a pub crawl round London followed by dancing at Tiger Tiger. Quite a bit different !!!

Seems like everyone came back to work today so from last week where it was really quiet and I could not do much due to nobody being around today was manic but at least the day went fast.

We are finally getting Max's birth registered on Thursday. We called them straight after he was born and Thursday is the first available day to get him registered !! Can not believe that we had to wait over 5 weeks for the first appointment. Look forward to my report on how we manage the tube stations for the first time.

The mighty Palace had a good run during Xmas and managed to get 4 wins out of 4 so very happy about that.

This is a picture of Max chilling in his cot, he is yet to spend a night in there but he seems to love playing in there looking at the mobile (thats a baby thing that goes round not a phone for those non parents out there)

Well what did yer get?

Well I never got the flavour shaker BUT I was lucky I never went on a full on Jamie Oliver rant because my Mum in Law did get the Italian book and some of his food ingredients for me. yum yum, will start to have a read and make some of them over the weekend.

Got an amazing set of saucepans from my Mum as well, as I said I do love cooking, the pans are really nice and called Stellar Lamina Tri-Ply Copper, here is a picture:



I will now hopefully be able to increase the collection.

What else? well I got lots of other things but my other main present was a Line6 toneport UX1, I can plug my guitar into it and connect it to the mac to make all sorts of noise :-) I still really need to sit down and play with it because I have only managed to have a very quick go on it due to people coming and going at our house. Will take a photo of my "rig" tomorrow.

Have Fun,

It's been a while, MERRY XMAS

Merry Xmas to everyone and a big ALL THE BEST to all those that know us in real life and those regular bloggers that also look here.

Been really busy as you can guess but I have been a bit slack getting the blog updated. Well my new year resolution will be to make sure I keep this updated at least every couple of days. Easier then giving up the beer !!!

So who has asked for Jamie Oliver Flavour Shaker? I have not but I do love my cooking so I have to be careful because I am going to hate myself for blogging about it and then getting one ! BUT I'm going to stick my neck out and think that most people will think the same as me and say "What the hell is that about?"

From the description:
Features

* It crushes, grinds, blends, mixes and more!
* The Flavour Shaker is a fun, quirky and highly original food preparation item
* Invented and endorsed by celebrity chef Jamie Oliver
* More versatile alternative to the Pestle and Mortar
* Creates lovely flavours in seconds
* Lightweight and easy to use
* Dishwasher safe (top rack only)
* Made from high grade thick core polycarbonate for strength
* Comfortable non-slip grip for safety
* Includes a ceramic ball for crushing ingredients

I use a pestle and mortar and it was quite an expensive one ( I hope, thanks Mum in -law !) because it's not a wooden one but a kind of stone one. It's great and I have to give it some force to get everything into a powder. Now I can not see that a little ceramic ball in a plastic container can "crush and grind" the way my pestle does but I would be interested to hear from anyone that gets one.

Personally there is no way I would spend £20 on it but I guess lots of people have because it is sales rank number 2 on Amazon.co.uk I will wait for the reviews to be added to the site so I can see.

Quick Question: How do I see what the top sales are on Amazon.co.uk, could not see a link

Quick Tip: Lightly fry your spices before crushing.

This is Max playing with his new play mat that his Uncle Matt got him yesterday. I'm not sure what he is trying to tell me but look at his fingers in the mirror !!!!


Have a good one and I will blog tomorrow. Happy Xmas all.

James, Faye and Max
x

2 weeks old today

Max is now 2 weeks old and we are coping quite well. Seems like he has been around longer then that and he is getting bigger and bigger.

Personally Im still struggling with the fact that my sleep is in stages. It's strange because I probably have only had about 6 - 7 hours sleep a night for quite a while but now it is broken with feeds it is harder. I used to go to bed about midnight and then be up around 6am, now I'm trying to sleep earlier. say 10pm and then use those 2 hours for feeding, changing etc.

I'm still off work so it's not too bad but I have to try and get this sleeping thing sorted by Monday. Work are really good, I get 2 weeks off paternity but I also do compressed time so I get a day off because of that and I need to take 2 days holiday and I will of had almost 3 weeks off in the end :-0

We managed to get out and go to Brent Cross (shopping centre) yesterday. We were very chuffed with ourselves and even managed to to do a nappy change in the little changing rooms that they have.

Apart from that we have not really managed to get out. I did manage a trip down Selhurst to see the Palace (Fayes mum was round so I never left her) Its a lot harder then we thought it was going to be and even a small trip down the local shop is a task and a half BUT it is getting a lot easier for us now.

This is a photo of Max in his probably the best baby in the world t-shirt. One of my fav bits of clothes on him and a present from Fayes work colleagues.

PS Thanks for the gmail account Jane and also Laura, gutted I can not have Palace Fan but oh well. Looks really good but I still need to play around with it.

Gmail invite

Can anyone help me get a gmail account?

Just been reading up on this new feature and it looks quite good and I would like to have a play.

Thank you.

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When you got to go, you have to go

Happy birthday Max, 1 week old :-0

The joys of parenthood. Today while changing Max from his moist and dirty nappy he decided it was time to go again. Now when he first started a couple of days ago actually having a poo we were very excited and kept saying good boy, we are not too sure now if we should of been encourging him all the time.

Anyway, So I'm there all happy thinking good stuff all done, baby clean and dry, I turned to get a fresh nappy and throw the old one, I come back and he turned himself into a water feature and sprayed everywhere. OK another clean but then he farted and not just any fart but a full on poo fart all over the mat, his clothes, himself and me :-(. He then did it again straight after !!! Faye heard me scream and came running in but just laughed at me.

Here is a picture of Max in his Palace gear taken this morning for his grandad and uncle.

Tired

Well what can I say other then I have the greatest son in the world and a wife that is brilliant and so so good with Max BUT we dont seem to have sleep anymore.

I might get Faye to write about the labour as she saw it and I also will at the same time and we could see how close they are to each other ! So I wont go into it all BUT he was born at the Royal Free in Hampstead and had a view of the Crystal Palace tower. I never knew that until we went in the birthing room because we had not been able to see that birthing room (had the pool) during any of visits to the hospital. As I looked out I thought "this is just meant to be" :-)

He was helped out by the ventouse method in the end so his head has quite pointed but he already, to us, has got his shape back and the only signs of the delivery are a couple of small bruises.

This is a replica of the bags under my eyes:


Today is going to be our first day truely on our own so really looking forward to it. It has been great having all the family round especially getting clothes as presents. We only bought a few cream / white things and have yet to venture out so have not got all the blue clothes.

We should be able to email people we were meant to tell about Max and also try to reply back to some, sending some photos out, thanking people for the flowers and presents. Sorting out my printer so I can become one of the people in the office with a photo on the desk.

I always said that I would not be one of them office people with their life posted all over the desk in pictures. I do have a couple of concert tickets lying around but thats just to prove to myself that I have seen some bands this year. Not sure why you would need the whole family in pictures on your computer monitor. I'm going to be going home to them in the evening and if need be I can actually look at my blog. So I might just keep a picture in my desk.

Thanks again for all the comments and nice to see some friends posting a comment. I dont get too many comments and hardly any from people I have actually seen and drank with.

And the name change of the blog I guess will be happening soon. Didnt really think about that did I !!

Anyway enough about me here is Max at 24 hours: I will take some in daylight later !!!! He tends to be more awake at night though.


This us playing on the Mac using front row and glow as the setting: