The ghostly images from the past...

Now, deep breath. This may come as a bit of a shock...

Ignore the... interesting stripey clothes, it's spooky, even I admit that!

Apart from anything else... My dad is dressed rather well! Obviously where I get my fashion sense from (the very late 70s...)

A Starring Role for Luke

I feel the need to prove that Luke still exists, for some reason... Having only made fleeting appearances on here recently, I thought he should probably get his own starring role in a blog entry. And here it is:

Luke's tiny little life is getting bigger. His hands are already at least double the size of when he was born, and at the rate he's growing, he'll be taller than both Nik and me before he hits the six-month mark...

Not that that is a difficult feat to achieve... But he's not unusually large in anyway - everything is perfectly in proportion, and indeed, he's just outgrowing all his 0-3 month clothing range and starting to get into his 3-6 month range - seeing as he's 3 months old on Saturday, that's pretty accurate as far as size goes.

He's more of a delight to us every day - having truly mastered the smile (and no, it's definitely NOT wind before you think it...), he's now moving on to laughing - and the same goes for having got the hang of standing (albeit still needing someone to steady his balance a bit), he's now trying to take a step when you help his stand - which for 3 months is amazing!

He seems to love lights and shiny things - and therefore the television seems to be a wonderful thing to him (he won't take his eyes off it - all those colourful things on a bright, shiny screen...), and at the moment, most of his huge collection of toys is being ignored in favour of a small, noisy giraffe (but then, even mummy and daddy like the giraffe...)

On top of this, I discovered some shocking photos at the end of last week which show just how similar he looks to me at the same age... I'll put a couple on here soon to show you... It's worrying... I was cute! Where did it all go wrong?!

New Year - New Blog (sort of...)

Happy New Year everyone!

It being a brand new year, I used the quieter time over the holiday period to have a think about my blog, and what's happening with it. And the first thing I decided to do was change the design - it was starting to depress me a bit, to be honest - very dark and very simple. So I have it a tweak, and I still have to tinker with some colours, but I'll get round to that soon.

How are we all? I've had a month away from posting here (nearly), and enjoyed the time I had off work to spend with Nikki and Luke over Christmas. It was a lovely time - nice and quiet, no real disasters to speak of, and Luke's present haul this year was extremely impressive. I'll put a picture up here when I can get round to it. New Year wasn't a particularly special day for us (well, at least, we didn't seem to treat it as special - further than remembering that it was the end of the year of Luke's birth, which is reason enough to celebrate)... I don't want to do a review of the year or anything, as that's kind of why I started the blog - to keep track of what was happening. That's evolved and moved on a bit since, but it's still the essence - I just think it would be a waste of time repeating all that has happened in the last year! Most of it traumatic in its own ways - some for the good, and some bad! But all I'll say about it is that it has been a good year.

I'm getting back in the habit of looking on here, so posting should be back to the regular occurence that it used to be!