Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Lucas is One

My incredible, little, beautiful, baby boy Lucas turned one year old at 10.39 this morning. Just thinking about Lucas as I write this puts a big smile on my face.
We'd have loved to spend the day with him today but we're all going to the Zoo on Friday morning and having a BBQ birthday party on Saturday.
Here he is just before he was born, immediately after and here he is on Saturday, taken by my brother in law Matthew, practicing standing at my sister's house.
He's absolutely loving standing at the moment and taking every opportunity to pull himself up, strike a solid stance and then let go! Happy first Birthday son.

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Sunday, 19 June 2011

Happy Father's Day

Just wanted to wish my Dad and all the Dad's I know, a slightly belated but very happy Father's Day.

And at the risk of being sentimental, here are two songs, I love, about being a Dad and always make me feel very sentimental.



Friday, 17 June 2011

Thursday, 16 June 2011

1st Snog Anniversary

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It was Ibolya and I's 11th first snog anniversary yesterday so here are some hydrangeas to enjoy. I love hydrangeas and Harlesden is in the full bloom of hydrangea season right now.

June 5th

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This weekend was beautiful, hot and sunny! We spent a lot of time in the garden, ate fish-finger and rocket wraps and went to the water park, down the road in North Kensington on Sunday.

May Bank Holiday

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I've been absolutely up to my ears recently in a really big project at work so any available time I've had recently, that's not looking after the children, has been spent working on that and so my blog has been very sadly neglected of late and I'm fighting a constant backlog. These pictures go back to the May 30th bank holiday when we had the pleasure of Denis and Thomas staying with us. We also spent some time at Roundwood, went to Queen's Park farmers market on Sunday morning and went to my niece, Beatrice's, 4th birthday party, followed by a magnificent Sunday roast at Jane's

Sunday, 5 June 2011

Lucas Standing

Lucas Standing from Robert on Vimeo.



It's been a big weekend for our little Lucas. He's only been mobile just a few weeks but he's now not only doing his first, technically, proper crawls but he's also loving standing and supporting his whole weight on his legs, as you can see in this little film. His 2 front teeth are on the painful cusp of emerging and he had his very first trip to the dentist on Saturday morning. But to top all these exciting developments, he gave us our biggest scare of our parenthood so far.
Around 5.00 on Saturday afternoon, when our backs were turned for a moment, he grabbed a sheet of his sister's star stickers and atet most of them. We only realised when we heard him choaking and trying to clear his throat. Ibolya grabbed him - threw him on his tummy, gave him some big back slaps and it felt like he was fighting for breath. Blood was in his saliva and the sight of that and not knowing if he could breath or not; made me call 999 for about the second or third time in my life.
By the time the ambulance arrived, I was still on the phone to 999,talking them through his condition but it soon became clear he could breath and although bright red and uncomfotable, he was returning to normal. The ambulance crew checked him and out and confirmed he was absolutely fine, his throat clear and everything had been sallowed. As a precaution they had to take him to hospital and abotu 2 hours later, we left St Mary's Paddington with Lucas fit and well but very tired and hungry.

Friday, 27 May 2011