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.
This is our newborn daughter Freyja Éowyn, who at the time of writing is nearing just 10 hours old. She weighed in at 8lbs 8oz, and is just adorable. Hannah laboured for a little over 13 hours, and did exceptionally well. We have both been awake for approximately 36 hours now, and are both exhausted.
Unfortunately due to a large amount of blood loss (from Hannah, not the baby!), Hannah and Freyja have been kept in overnight, which means I am home alone tonight with my thoughts and experiences on this truly lifechanging thing.
I will certainly never forget the first time I saw Freyja’s hair appearing, or when the head was born, or the cutting of the umbilical cord. I’m not exactly squeemish so I got stuck right in with everything I could, but of course mainly supporting Hannah the best I could.
I also would like to send a rather large hat tip to our absolutely fantastic midwife, and the rest of the staff in the labour suite. She did an astounding job at calming Hannah, keeping myself and Hannah up to date with the happenings, and surprisingly – for an NHS hospital – attentiveness was excellent, and for most of the time we felt like we had her [the midwife] to ourselves! Unfortunately we didn’t get the planned water birth at Blakes in Gosport, but all that matters is that both Hannah and our gorgeous daughter are OK, and for that I am truly thankful.
Well, I have sheets to change so I must get on – I am so tired and can hardly function, and I have to be up early tomorrow to visit Hannah at the hospital. So, until next time…
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!
This is our newborn daughter Freyja Éowyn, who at the time of writing is nearing just 10 hours old. She weighed in at 8lbs 8oz, and is just adorable. Hannah laboured for a little over 13 hours, and did exceptionally well. We have both been awake for approximately 36 hours now, and are both exhausted.
