Time for another children update, now they are both (wow!) asleep at the same time. I cut **FIXME's hair in the bath this evening, and he was good as gold at sitting entirely still while I did it, which is annoying because it means the blame for any tonsorial misfunction must be entirely mine.

( More below the (hair) cut ... )

An eclectic collection of ideas running round my head at the moment, in compressed format due to lack of time (and thus, in parts at least, likely to be incomprehensibly telegraphic (and overly parenthetical) at best and unclear and poorly-thought-through at worst), but with luck it will at least serve to get them out of my head ( Read more... )

**TODO laughs! At the age of two months. His first was yesterday, and he was laughing at his older brother **FIXME doing silly things at him. And he did it again with me today, on two occasions, so it wasn't a fluke ( Read more... )

What's to tell about **TODO, now he's seven-and-a-half weeks old?

Well, he's keeping the whole household busy, that's for sure.
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At only 5 weeks, **TODO said his first words to me just now.

He looked me in the eye and said, "Hoo!", and then, after a little consideration, added, "Hur!".

(Who? Her.)

I had a lot of interesting things to say here but now I have a chance I find they've gone entirely ( Read more... )

Very good news: **TODO is now safely at home again, sleeping (noisily) in his Moses basket next to me as I type ( Read more... )

I came in to the bedroom on the unit this morning and found **TODO there, in his mother's arms ( Read more... )

The news is that there almost certainly isn't going to be any significant news for a while. **TODO is still in SCBU, and likely to be until at least the weekend. He's physically fine in himself, and in no critical danger. He's not feeding as much as we'd like but not at a concerning level yet; he was over his birthweight when he was admitted so ( Read more... )

You know, some of the rage and bile I directed at the car parking system at the hospital might in fact be redirected. (It is enraging, though.)

Thanks so much for all the support - it means a lot.