Milo on his bottle
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30th March 2012
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13th January 2012
It seems like ages ago that Milo entered our lives, but it is only a month. Here are a few photos from the first month.
10th January 2012
Milo has had some professional pictures taken thanks to Debbie Wallwork. They can be seen here:
http://milo.debbiewallwork.com
15th December 2011
He’s only a few hours old, but thanks to Uncle Chris he already has a radio jingle!
How showbiz!
12th December 2011
Hello all. And welcome to the long and winding road of labour. The first contractions happened at 4am on Saturday 10th December… They have been coming every 15 mins or there abouts, but 60 hours later, we’re no further forward. Only lacking sleep and motivation!
Andrea has been doing really well and we have already had 2 trips to the hospital. The second trip provided us with a TENS machine, that I can highly recommend as it has made the contractions standable. Andrea can actually get a bit of sleep between them.
We met with the midwife this afternoon and things still seem to be going normally. Apparently the longer this “early labour” the quicker he will drop out. Hopefully there is not much longer to go!
A tired Wim and Andrea
PS – 4 down, 4 to go in the NCT girls group.
24th November 2011
Not long to go now until Bruce makes his entrance. We’ve finished our NCT classes (might add a post on this) and learnt an awful lot about babies. I’m not sure if it has scared us too much, but it’s too late now.
Brucie is no longer breech so we’re just waiting for the natural start… The due date is 5th December, but hopefully he might decide to come any day now.
11th October 2011
After Andrea’s visit to the midwife, it appears Bruce is breech (upside down). He may sort this out but if not then he will need to be whipped out (c section) 2 weeks early, which would be 3rd week of November.
This would be kinda good as it would be well out the way of Christmas, but on the negative side we wouldn’t have all the fun of a normal birth. Anyway, it all depends on Bruce and whether he manages to sort himself out in the next few weeks.
11th October 2011
We’re putting together a playlist for Bruce Roose to make his way into the world… here’s what we have so far:
- The final countdown – Europe
- The road to hell – Chris Rea
- Sweat – Snoop Dogg vs. David Guetta
- Doctorin’ the house – Coldcut
- Higher – Taio Cruz feat Kylie & Travie McCoy
- Patience – Take That
- Can you feel it – The Jacksons
- Push it – Salt-n-Pepa
- I swear – All 4 one
- Finally – Ce Ce Peniston
- Hello – Lionel Richie
- Can’t take my eyes off you – Frankie Valli
- What’s my name – Rihanna feat. Drake
Leave a comment with your suggestions and they just might be included………..
18th September 2011
What was “Fran’s room” then the “Spare room” is now becoming “The nursery”. How grown up. Anyway – it needed decorating (mainly to replace the carpet) before putting baby items in it. That has been most of the work this week. You would think it was an easy job: slap some paint on the ceiling and walls, paint the woodwork and have the carpet fitted. As with most things, not so easy.
As we started the job on Monday, the winds from Hurricane Katrina were being felt in our garden and took out 2 fence panels and a post. Not a good start and another problem to be solved this week. Luckily Gary knew a man who could come and dig out the old concrete and replace the post and panels. A phone call, and a trip to Travis Perkins, and we were ready to have it repaired on Saturday morning. Here are Mark and his son Ash working on fitting the new panels.
Fitting new fence panels. I think you can tell which the new ones are.
So now back to the nursery. I started with the ceiling, but as I rolled the paint on, it just came off in sheets, back to the artex. Not good.
Perhaps its the old paint I am using. So get some new white paint and put it on with a brush. Job done, it looks good and I go and have lunch.
An hour later I come back to the room and all the new paint it cracked and flaking off. I don’t have any pictures of this and it is something I would rather forget. So we strip off all the new paint, back to the artex, and then treat with UPVA adhesive to try and seal the artex. The next day, a new pot of white paint, and it seems to be holding this time. Good. But one area starts cracking again! That’s OK, I can just remove the few inches cracking and just do that bit again. So after its dry I carefully pick away at the white paint, only for it not to be a few inches that come away, it just keeps falling off. Poo.
Eventually I get a stanley knife around the affected area to prevent any more coming away as I pull on it. Another dose of UPVA and more white paint and I think its done. Looks OK and I daren’t try and put anymore paint on it to make it look perfect. I’m sure Bruce won’t notice anyway.
Walls done and carpet down, it looks like a nice little nursery.
The bedroom, with a spare bed (so people can still stay)