1st Christmas

Mikey seems rather bemused by the whole concept of Christmas! Thankfully he is now fully recovered from his pre Christmas illness (as he kicked over his medication on Christmas Eve!!) and had been observing the whole thing quite carefully! The present thing has baffled him, but his cousin helped out on the opening side of things... he seems relatively impressed by the small toyshop we now have in our living room especially as most of them make a copious amount of noise! At least they have off switches or I'd be removing batteries very quickly!

At least the snow seems to have stuck on the other side of the pond over Christmas...seeing as Mikey had to get to his adoring fans it was a huge relief as Andy isn't happy driving in ice etc and got a little stressed on Christmas Day as the road my sister lives on was still more like a skating rink than tarmac! We also headed over the Canterbury to see Andy's Dad on Monday.... more new people for Mikey to meet and he handled that with ease! He can be very sociable when he needs to and extremely charming (well he did get to sit on the lap of a glamorous blonde!!)

We have also moved onto cups for juice... a big step forward that he handled with ease! Although Pear juice can have quite an effect on nappies... I think that is enough detail though! He has also worked out that sticking hands in food is fun and you can clean your mouth by just wiping it with your sleeve! I guess mud pies will follow in the warmer weather!!!

Being British...

Right now I think the whole country is concentrating very hard on being very british and worrying about the weather!! After all, how british can we get! At the moment we appear to be having another cold snap along with snow... I am now officially old as I can say with feeling that I hate the stuff. We simply can't cope with it and everything comes to a grinding halt plus I would love to actually see news on a news report rather than just a weather update!

I called this morning to chase up a prescription I requested last Thursday but haven't seen yet... the pharmacy checked their records, it has been passed to my GP (who are in the same building) so they nipped over to check what has happened to it only to be told it has never been requested! They showed their records showing it has so it has now been re-requested and the earliest it can be done is Monday, thankfully I won't run out by then (just) but I had allowed plenty of time when I requested it last week. In fact while I was waiting with Mikey last week they were searching for another one which they had amanaged to lose. They seem to be making a habit of this now! But getting an appointment with a Dr is hard enough when you are ill and no way am I going to try to do that just to get a repeat prescription done... Maybe if they had a decent receptionist again they wouldn't lose as many... The one they have is a real 'old fashioned' one who scares the life out of me when I phone up and doesn't talk to you but at you, they used to have a really nice one but she moved to another surgery just before Mikey was born.

My Uncle and cousin are supposed to be coming down from Yorkshire tomorrow (just for the day I think!) mainly to meet Mikey as they haven't met him in the flesh yet! And the rate he's growing they have got a little worried he's going to be walking and talking soon!  He has spent quite a while talking to his dummy for some reason this morning - I have no idea if it made much sense but he seemed happy! We're still waiting for the first tooth to make it's appearance, if the drool is anything to go by it should be here at any time! He has chewed through one dummy so far and to be honest Mummy is a coward and doesn't really want to keep sticking her fingers in his mouth as he can exert quite a bit of gum pressure!!! The photo is Mikey and the Bear he was given by Santa, to be honest we weren't to sure what to make of Santa and kept a tight hold of Mummy but we've done it now and I'm sure we'll be fine next year!

Next Stage

We've moved Mikey out of our room and into his own room now and he's now in his cot! To be honest he had out grown his moses basket... when he stretched he filled it completely so it really was time to move him! The only thing is he looks so tiny in his cot... I could fill it with soft toys to keep him company but knowing him they'd all end up on his face! So Mum would spend all night checking he was still breathing and not being smothered by a bear...

The first night was a little unsettled but we've soon learnt that he is like Daddy and needs noise (a radio) and a little light and then we get a nice quiet night! (well so far we have at least!) We haven't yet rolled over or anything exciting like that but we are very good at doing leg slams - and now we have the 'It's a Small World' Mobile up and playing that triggers even more! I think that will be a ride to avoid if we ever visit WDW with him!! I'm not sure how the boat would react to a Mikey leg slam!

We're slowly building up to Christmas, thankfully the snow has melted. I now know that I am getting old, it was pretty for the first day then I was totally fed up with the stuff and just wanted it to go. We showed it to Mikey through the window - after all he isn't really big enough to go and play in it yet, and his reaction was one of being completely unimpressed! Maybe next time he will be in more of a mood to find out how to play with the stuff!!!! But the next 'big' thing I think will be the Christmas tree when we get round to putting it up! I have a feeling the lights will be a big hit with him as we have little twinkly white ones which have a changeable 'pattern' so I can play 'confuse the baby' to my hearts content!! Only joking, I'll have to hide the controller incase he works out how to change it himself!