It’s been a little while since I talked about our little one, and my she has grown up a lot. She’s 14 months old now and she’s walking around like no tomorrow. She wants to walk so much that if you let her loose outside she will just walk and walk, and if you try picking her up she will protest. She’s got such a character now, and I’m happy because she always seems to be so happy. We must be doing something right, right? We went to Marwell Zoo last weekend and she loved it. Maybe she’s still a little young though as she seemed more interested in the other children than the animals, but she had a lovely day out. You should be able to see a picture of me and her looking at the fishes in the African bit at the top of this post.
In other news, we are settling well into our new home and we couldn’t have done it without everyone’s help, especially our lovely parents who have given us guidance and support through everything, so a massive thanks to them! Work is busy as always; it’s keeping me right on my toes and some of the projects we’re working on are really exciting.
Hannah has been doing really good too since we moved back to Portsmouth, she’s making regular visits to new mums she meets on a site called Netmums, and has been visiting lots of play areas in the vicinity such as Krazy Kaves, which Freyja seems to love! I’m planning on booking a day off work one day so we can all go together as it looks like I’d have a lot of fun there too…
All in all, everything has been going really well for us and it’s thrilling watching Freyja growing up and developing such a wonderful personality. Time really is flying and we’re having such good memories – many of which I’ve got on video camera, but I just haven’t had time to sort through all the footage and actually get some videos on YouTube. It’ll happen one day I’m sure…
I haven’t done a “personal” update for some time now, so I thought I’d briefly brush over our recent lives. The photo you can see on the left is the current state of our new house that is being built in the new Dickens Quarter development in Portsmouth. As you can see it is coming along well, and the estimated completion date is currently the end of April. It’s exciting to see it come so far and we simply can’t wait to make it our own lovely home.
On the Freyja side of things, she’s drawing close to 10 months old now and is coming on leaps and bounds. She can make “red indian” noises (patting her mouth and making noise), walk around standing up and holding the furniture, put balls into the “learn and sort” helicopter toy I got her for Yule, crawl around on hands and knees with quite a pace, wave, throw tantrums and all sorts of other bits and pieces.
She’s truly a joy and makes me a very proud parent. She also eats us out of house and home, typically getting through a bowl of porridge and yoghurt for breakfast, a slice of bread with topping and a yoghurt and biscuit for lunch, a snack mid-afternoon, and a bowl of healthy home-made food followed usually by 2 or 3 yoghurts. As you can probably tell, she likes yoghurts, but there’s nothing wrong with that as they’re a good source of calcium as Hannah’s milk starts to deplete.
In other news, it’s Hannah’s birthday soon, so if you haven’t been invited (on Facebook of course…) and you think you should be, get in touch.
Yeah OK, I’ve not updated my blog in like 7 weeks aside from increasingly annoying Twitter digests, which I have now disabled. Life has been busy as ever, and I’ve been working hard at Netbasic, often (much to the annoyance of Hannah) working late. Freyja is already 7 months old, nearing 8 months now, and she’s just such a character. She’s happily sitting up and loves playing with Daddy (providing he gets home from work before she goes to sleep!). Her first tooth is very slowly but surely coming through which is great, but the last couple of days have been hard for her and she woke up at half 10 the other night, which was very unlike her.
We had friends over on Saturday – it was nice to actually see some of my friends for once! We’ve learnt that having a baby can make socialising very difficult, and many of the things we used to do are not so easy any more, so it was refreshing that Tom & Soph came over to see us and a good night was had by all!
Yuletide is approaching already, and this year we’re off to Andorra with the family for a skiing trip. Freyja will be a little too young to remember it but I’m sure she’ll love the snow. Unfortunately I’ve learnt that my mum may not be able to ski due to her leg being sore and she’s had an injection and stuff from the doctors, so she needs to take it easy. Although having said that, she’d love to spend every day with her three gorgeous grandchildren!
In other news, I’ve been working hard on a new project of mine which some of you will have heard of. I’m not far from releasing it as public beta version, but more news when that happens. I’d love to commit to saying “Yeah I’ll blog every few days again”, but since Freyja was born my life has pretty much entirely evolved around her (of course!) which leaves me very little time – and the spare time I do have I spend watching films with Hannah! I will see if I can blog more frequently, as some of you have complained to me for not blogging so much and letting it fill up with tweets…
Many of my friends have already been and gone to many festivals across Europe; Hellfest, Metalcamp and a multitude of others. However, having a little baby can be quite restrictive when it comes to things like that – camping in a field when Freyja is so young is just a no-go – so where we normally would’ve accompanied everyone, we sat at home cleaning up poo and sick… although I don’t think I know anyone going to Wacken Open Air this year due to it’s weakening line-up and shift towards poor music (Bring Me The Horizon, Bullet For My Valentine for example). However when it comes to Bloodstock Open Air, Hannah’s mum lives just round the corner! This blessing has enabled us to visit the festival grounds during the day, and travel home in the evening to see our gorgeous baby girl. Maybe next year we might be able to bring her with us – she’ll be about 16 months by then, but we need to find out if even ear defenders will be enough at that age… May not even be until 2011…
Anyway, this year I’m looking forward to seeing some great bands, including Carcass, Katatonia, Saxon, Apocalyptica, Blind Guardian, Enslaved, Amon Amarth, Anathema, Europe, Satyricon and Turisas. It also means I get to finally update The Metal Page!
Well time has just flown hasn’t it. Freyja is already 7 weeks and 4 days old, and she’s still as gorgeous as ever! She’s so amazing and I’m such a proud dad. She’s doing really well sleep-wise, and we consider ourselves very lucky. We manage to get her to sleep around 8pm of an evening, and normally she’s sleeping through til about 6am! Over the last couple of days she’s been waking up a couple of hours earlier, we guess because she’s so hot with all the warm weather, but we really can’t complain!
Last weekend we spent outdoors with her at a couple of picnics (one of which was my nephew Finley’s birthday!) which was really nice and so she got to see some friends and family. We’re keeping in touch with my parents in France via webcam which is great, and she gave them a smile the other morning which was really nice to see. If you’ve been following my tweets, you’ll know that she’s already smiling and laughing. At the moment most laughs turn into hiccups, but there is the odd time (normally when I’m at work, damnit!) that she does a proper laugh. I managed to catch her doing it this morning which was so awesome to see.
It’s a busy and hectic life at the moment, and I rarely get a chance to do anything for myself, but she is totally worth it.
It’s been a little while since I talked about our little one, and my she has grown up a lot. She’s 14 months old now and she’s walking around like no tomorrow. She wants to walk so much that if you let her loose outside she will just walk and walk, and if you try picking her up she will protest. She’s got such a character now, and I’m happy because she always seems to be so happy. We must be doing something right, right? We went to Marwell Zoo last weekend and she loved it. Maybe she’s still a little young though as she seemed more interested in the other children than the animals, but she had a lovely day out. You should be able to see a picture of me and her looking at the fishes in the African bit at the top of this post.
