Shamefaced blogger...

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.

Shame on me. I've just noticed the last time I updated the blog. I'm absolutely ashamed.

So let's do a catch up then...

The main news is from Luke's corner - maybe that's a new part to my blog existence, "Luke's Corner"... - anyway, yes. The little man now has TWO bottom teeth! He's getting very good at using them - especially on Mummy and Daddy when he gets the chance (ie. when they don't move quick enough to get out of the way!), but occasionally, he does use them on food too - he is now a big fan of apriciots, mandarins, breadsticks, gingerbread men, moon biscuits and bananas.

He's eating not just purees now, but puree with lumps, and the finger-food I just mentioned...
He's very nearly walking - just started crawling (we weren't convinced he'd bother with the crawling stage, just get on with it and start walking around...), and has learnt to roll over onto his front (and is more than happy to sleep on his side, and sometimes on his front), and can also now sit himself up again from the crawling or lying position. Which is very impressive for such a young man (let's face it, most of us find that difficult at the best of times!), and is extremely cute to watch! There are two more teeth coming through on the top row too, so we're keeping an eye out for the additional pain when he bites us!

Other than that, I don't think there's much to tell. We're off to Kew Gardens on Saturday to celebrate my dad's birthday, which is great because its one of our favourite places (and somewhere Luke will get very sick of the sight of in the future...). Other than that, I'm planning the worship and some other stuff for the GOGI event (Go On Get Involved, for those not in the know...) which should be good - the only thing I'll give away about this is that its on the theme of Superheroes... But that's not till November, so I'm thinking about it now in the hope that I'll get more stuff out of it than I need and that it might lead me to extra inspiration for something.

I'm also taking a break from church for now. It's not permanent and doesn't mean, by any means, that I have lost faith. I think I said before that I've lost faith in people, but not God. Its just not practical for me to go at the moment - I need the time with Nikki and Luke, and I have to put them first. My faith has always been an intensely private thing for me - and huge group worship has never been something I have been overly impressed by - the only time its been particularly memorable for me is when there's been a personal moment for me in there. But I do need the company of others, and it makes me very sad that I don't feel part of the church in anyway and that I now feel I have to have a break from there, and even worse that my hopes of possibly being a young family connected to that church (even if that connection is just me) is not going to happen. It has made me wonder about the point of church altogether.

Anyway, to break up the confusion at the moment, I've been enjoying the world cup... Well, I say "enjoying" - not the England games - they've been painful at best, but I am optimistic about it all now - after all, we're in the quarter finals, and have a good chance of setting up a semi against either Brazil or France (either of which, on recent form I think we'd fancy our chances against if we hit some form). But there have been some good games, which I've really got into - the Argentina v.Mexico game in particular... I like Mexico, and they were one of my outside bets (not that I bet...I'm not on a footballer's wage...), so I think its a shame they've gone out. I am more interested in past world cups, though, so I've been watching some old highlights and stuff from world cups gone by, especially Mexico '86. Actually, that's something I've always wondered why there's not some kind of historical football computer game - one that allows you to play as, say the England team from 1986 and see if you can get further than the quarter finals, or the 1950 team and avoid losing to the USA... But maybe that's just me...

I'm going away now. I will be back regularly though... Watch this space...