Just a little update on our boys

We hope you are all well. Touch wood we are free of cough and colds at the moment and long may it last. Tom is attending asthma clinic as he has had croup four times now and they suspected it might be a touch of asthma. He has been on an inhaler for about a month and we have seen a vast improvement. He did have a persistent cough which has now gone and he is much better at night. We were being woken every night with his coughing and the poor mite looked a bit tired after restless nights. Roll on the summer!



Tom ‘reads’ to Zach from his books and it is quite touching to watch. We do hope he will become a bookworm like Tom! Zach is now rolling over (one direction at the moment and gets a little frustrated when he hits a wall or object). We think he is going to be mobile a lot sooner than Tom. Zach is weaned and my god that boy can eat! We have yet to find something he does not like! He is not doing very well at night he is waking up a few times and is a little grumpy – where are those teeth?



I was going to add a photo from the camera but the batteries have run out and need re-charging!!!! It’s too late and it’s been a long day so TTFN



Love

Amanda, Toby, Tom & Zach

xxxx

March already

I've just been so busy latley. Tom, Zach, Amanda and I have had colds. Zach's been a nightmare sleeping at night untill about 2 weeks ago. Amanda's started her own business as a Kleeneze distributor. She's doing really well a it. I've been working 50 hour weeks as well as looking after the kids when I get home means there's no time for anything else. Thats why I've nt updated my blog site for ages. We've booked another holiday to Centre Parcs in June.

Zach's sitting up well now. I've post some new photos when the chance arises.

Family is still sick

Still coughing and spluttering. Zach is still waking up. We'll survive though :)

Sick family

Well it seems for one reason or another that we are all poorly at the moment. Zach started off with a cough and cold waking himself up at night. Tom has the cold also and had difficulty breathing a couple of nights ago. It's quite scary when you see you child struggling for breath. We had him in the shower room so the steam would open up his airways which it did. Amanda also has the cold and is very tired having supported Tom through that night because I had the last day of my course to attend.

We're all on the mend though I think. Tom slept a lot better last night and Zach's sleeping on his side now which seems to help. He has a cushion behind his bottom to stop him rolling over onto his back.

We can look forward to a year of good health after this I truly believe. (I've had enough of feeling pessimistic all the time).

Courses - Finished

Just finshed my second course in the last 7 days. It's quite a lot to take in 2 courses. Early starts this week as I was commuting to Northampton from Swindon. Thats about 1.5 hours to 2.25 hours depending on traffic and time of day. Still, they were both very valuable.

Training

Just finished a training course for my work on Friday. It was at a place called Middle Aston House
and was residential. It was a great course about leading poeple. I have another course that starts on Monday. That one finishes on Wednesday then it's back to work.

All four of us at Christmas

Christmas day

From the top:

• Look! Santa drank his milk!
  
• Rudolph ate his carrot!
• I got a new game.
• I don't know whats going on but for once my brother is speachless!!!
  

Two Santa's???

One of Tom's many parties, this time with his buddy James (right).

A few photo's from Christmas...

It's taken some time but I did intend to put some photo's up that were taken at Christmas.

Here's the photo that was on people's xmas cards from us....

Happy new year!

Happy new year!

Christmas was great fun. Tom got to open all Zach's presents as well as his own and mine! He had a fabulous day.

Zach now weights 16 pounds 5 ounces. He can roll over from front to back and is making increasing differing sounds. He's changing so fast I almost don't want him to grown up just yet.

Amanda is back to work today after maternity leave. She's looking as beautiful as ever ;)

Christmas

It's been a busy time latley. Christmas has just finished and we all had a fantastic day. Thomas got lots of presents and because Zach's so small, Tom got to open Zachs as well. He'll never have that many presents to open again.

Zach's well over 15 pounds in weight now. He's following the 75th percentile in baby growth when Tom followed he 50th. asically that means he's a big long boy who at 4 months of age is wearing 6-9 month clothing! Granted it does all shrink to a degree when washed but that's still some achievement.

He's holding toys now and has taken a shine to one of Thomas's favorite toys when he was a baby. It's a little fabric character that we call 'pinky' because he has pink ears. He plays with his 'a-frame' a lot and rolls himself over onto his side frequently. Yesterday for the first time he rolled from his front to his back for the first time.

Thomas and Zach are absolutley beautiful and I love them to bits.

More soon including photo's from christmas day.

Captain Cute

Lets catch up shall we....?

Well since my last post about the family, a lot has happened. We've had halloween as you can see from the pictures. We went to 2 parties and they were great fun. Can't believe I'd never been to a halloween party before.

At the beginning of November we went to 'Centre Parks' for 5 days holiday. We ate out lots, did plenty of swimming and a few other things. Took lots of photos, tried to take lots of Zach as it was his first holiday. Amanda's mum and aunt came with us which gave them time to spend with the kids. We all enjoyed ourselves very much.

I will post a few images of the holiday soon.I'll try and do it now actually. Hang on...... done.

This one is my favorite picture. It's of Tom just after he's thrown a stone into the water.

Zach is doing really well. He's sixteen stone or something ;) Last night he slept from 10:30pm through to 7:30am! Normally, he only seems to get up once a night now. It will change soon enough though I am sure of that. Teething.....

3 months old today is Zachary. I do intend to update this blog on a regular basis throughout

Zach's first year. We'll see after that what happens.

I love my family....

Windows Vista 5259 November CTP Screenshots

Looks very sweet!

Over at Win-Vista.net

Here's the individual links:

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XBox 360 review by Paul Thurrott

He reviews all thing microsoft but is not always nice about them. It is a comprehensive review, well worth a read if you have 30 minutes.

The XBox 360 review is here.

Just to keep Jenny happy....

This weeks update....

Zachs up to 12lbs 13ounces now and is doing well. He's 9 weeks old and is going on his first holiday next week. I'll post some new pictures soon. Just have to recharge thebatteries for the camera.....

Zach update

Amanda took Zach to be weighed yesterday and he is now 12lbs 4ounces. He also had his first set of jabs from the doctor last week. He screamed and was quite unsettled that day. The following day he seemed to sleep most of the time.

He's changing quite significantly of late. He coo's and makes lots of facial expressions, nice big smiles which is very rewarding to see. He will only get more interactive as time goes by, it's a very exciting time for all of us.

Tom is enjoying having Zach around, he interacts with him much the same way that we do. He's obviously been watching us and learning.

Zach is 8 weeks old and will be 2 months on the 31st.

Now some additions to this post from Tom (all written by Tom!):

TOM MUMMY DADDY NANNY ZACH TC (this line all spelt by tom, mummy told tom the sound for the next lines!)
XRAY MADAGASCAR ALEX MARTY GLORIA MELMAN
TOM LOVES ZACH
WRONG TROUSERS WALLACE GROMIT

Tom

Seems to be well on the way to recovery. Now we just have to crack the 5am "Daddy, is it time to get up yet?"......

Tom's ear infection

Tom was not well last night. The side of his ear up to his jaw was (and still is) swollen, so I took him to the doctors this morning. He's got an ear infection apparently. :(

I'll post again with any updates.