Ike and Daddy

Clare and Rosa are in UK for the weekend, so it's me and Isaac for the weekend (Thursday till Sunday night). Yesterday we went exploring in the park in the morning, and then Dave and Marvin came over in the afternoon. They even brought pressies for the kids! Ike got an Elmo (from Sesame street) which he seems pretty pleased with.

Now he is annoyed, I think the train set broke or something, better go...

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Rosa at 8 weeks

Rosa's first blog post, and it's not going to be a long one. Poor Rosa. MWUAH Rosa, or even MWURosa!

She is really starting to look lovely now, more and more awake and alert - and demanding attention. She makes funny noises like she is breathing in while squawking when something surprises her.

She also tracks things quite well now with her eyes, and grabs hold of rings / toys attached to her baby gym. She giggled once the other day, and smiles and coos a lot when we talk to her. Happy days innit. She can almost hold something approaching a crawl position as well - very strong head and neck!

In terms of general behaviour, she is very good at sleeping in the evening now. She goes down at around 7pm and doesn't usually wake up till around 2 or 3 for food - but sometimes has bad nights, not often recently though.

She's lovely and chubby, and today she blew her first bubble. Well done Dosa!

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Happy brrr brrras

Isaac was trying to pronounce the name of a book, not sure what it was actually called but instead of Happy Christmas it came out as Happy brrr brrrras - like someone making the sound of a phone ringing. Very cute and seriously funny.

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Ike's words

Ok Rosa is here as well now, and we haven't done a blog entry for AAAAAGGGESS. But Isaac has said some funny things in the last few weeks, and here they are before i forget them.

Jamie: Isaac, can you say 'supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' ?

Isaac: Yes.

Jamie (carrying Isaac, can't find something): Oh bloody hell.

Isaac: Oh, baby owl.

Bigger digger, hello digger, dig a bigger digger, digger gone, where digger dunno. Where man dunno. What ya doin man? What's he found? Down ner (down there). At dairs (up stairs). Diat! (Biscuit). Aboodah (elephant). Badnan (Panda). Not our lucky day! MWUAH ROSA!!!!

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At last he is crawling!

It has been some time since the last entry, and a LOT has happened. It has been so long mainly because Ike has been so ill and there just wasn't much to report. He got ill around the beginning of February with a kind of gastric flu, and refused to eat anything but banana and yoghurt for weeks, plus vomiting a few times every day. It was AWFUL! He lost loads of weight and we ended up in casualty several times, including the evening of my birthday. In fact, we were all ill the week leading up to my birthday - I was vomitting and Jamie had a bad stomach and we all felt fluey. We had a party booked for my birthday which we had to postpone to the following week, then cancel because we still weren't well enough by then. Ike had antibiotics, which made his stomach worse, then got (apparently) a urine infection and had more, stronger antibiotics which totally WRECKED his stomach. He was ill for a month, then started to recover, then got ill again for a couple of weeks (vomitting again), then well for a week, then vomitting for another 5 days or so. He seems finally to be recovering but now won't eat nearly as well as before and will only eat really pureed stuff. Poor thing.

BUT, about 3 weeks ago he suddenly decided that he wanted to move, and crawled backwards for a few days, then got in to it and went forward. Immediately he learned to pull himself up on things, cruise the furniture, and fall off beds (Clare). Oh, and worksurfaces (Jamie). We now have stairgates and have to watch him ALL the time - the little tyke is everywhere!

He has also learned to wave, and even waved when just said bye bye to him yesterday. He also turns the page of a book when you ask him to, claps on demand - that's about it, but we are impressed!

His speech is developing too - he can say ''yes'' now, although I am sure he doesn't know what it means! he says mummum and daddad of course, and a sort of ''neen'' word - ''no'' maybe? He has started really mimmicking too - if you keep repeating a word he will try to say it too. He has tried cat, duck, bye, isaac and probably other things which we haven't noticed.

On a totally different tack, I am also pregnant again! I think we conceived on my otherwise disasterous birthday!! We are nearly 10 weeks already. Unbelievable. Exciting too though - not entirely planned but certainly welcome. Ike will make a fantastic older brother!!

2 Clever things in a minute

Isaac just reached forward and actually moved his legs a bit to one side in an effort to reach his musical tower thing! He'd done it in the bath a few times, but never on dry land! Then when Clare and I clapped and said well done - he joined in with the clapping! He didn't seem to impressed about it, he was half paying attention to the jazz music as well. It's really strange how things suddenly click, like when he suddenly started saying mamamama.