Jamie's first birthday!

Ok, so I'm a little late!

I thought, as I'm starting this up again, I should include the most excitingday of Jamie's life so far....

Jamie celebrated his first birthday on August 9th 2007. He was very spoilt and loved running around with his baby friends. He had a cake with his favourite character from BabyTV on it (peeka boo) which he decided to poke the eyes out before the actual candle blowing ceremony. (Or whack it with your fists as he saw it!)

Here are a few pictures:

With only six sleeps to go until Jamie's first Christmas, things are really shaking up! First off, Jamie has already lernt how to demolish the Christmas pressies! (Sorry uncle simon and Grandad Les, Jamie ripped both bows off yours, not a prob, popped them back on though!) I'm sure you can see from these pics just how much of a 'little helper' he has been!

Will start updating this more regularly now that I have sorted the digital camera out and that I have a computer that doesnt zap me with electricity eveytime I press the 'R' button!

Hope you like these pics! More to come!

4 Months Old!

Jamie is now 4 months old! Seems like the time has flown by, so what has happened since the last post? Well, he had his first zoo visit, he managed to get 2 sets of injections and his BCG out of the way and is now beginning weaning!

Jamie started teething a couple of weeks ago, its lovely, lots of dribble, snot and sucking! He is also mega hungry all the time which is probably why he has started waking up in the night again...

Our Little Devil....

Thank you to everyone for all the messages whilst Jamie was in hospital. Both the 'get well' wishes and the 24 hour texting kept Jamie fighting ad mummy busy! God only knows how much scrubbing and cleaning mummy had to do in Jamie's hospital room. If anything feel on the floor that the staff may have wanted to use on Jamie, she threw it out. So out went the feeding tubes that fell on the floor, out went the disposable thermometers (well, in mummys bag, hey, dont act like you don't take the free soap from hotel rooms!), out went the nose tubes. Heck, mummy would have thrown out the monitors had they got dirty!

He is doing much better now though, he still has a cough, although that cleared up alot more recently. He is no longer contagious and is enjoying himself with the two new tricks he has learned- 1. Sleep, for some reason, Jamie has cottoned on to the fact that sleep is the best possible way to spend the day, so hes sleeping all day and all night! -2. Poking his tongue out! The cheeky little devil loves poking his tongue out at us. He doesn't quite understand why he isn't making the same noise we do when we poke our tongue out!

Watch the video below, its only a few seconds long and you'll see his 'attempt' at making the same noise after mummy blew raspberries at him! Its very cute! Turn your speakers on to here the sound he makes!

Jamie has Bronchiolitis!

Jamie has been very poorly over the last week. He first had a cold with a high fever and a really bad cough, but it soon developed into breathing problems and dehydration as he was off his food... We took him to A+E at the beginning of the week and he was admitted there and then.

Soon, he was transferred to another hospital, where he tested positive for RSV (some sort of virus) and it was confirmed that what he was suffering from was a disease called Bronchilitus, which swells parts of the lungs and produces lots of mucus causing trouble breathing.

He was put on oxygen 24/7 and was tube fed because he wouldnt accept feeds via the mouth and it was making him worse being dehydrated. Jamie would NOT accept the nasal oxygen thingy and had to have the mask placed near him to 'waft' his way... which meant mummy and daddy had to keep chasing him around his cot as he rolled over away from the oxygen mask. He also had a very bad habit of kicking the sensor off his foot and sending the machines ballistic!

Today we got back from the hospital. He had managed to go through the night and today without needing the oxygen and started accepting food again. He is still very sick, still suffering from Bronchiolitus, but there is no more the hospital can do for him. As its a virus, it has to be ridden out, all the hospital can treat is the effects of the bronchiolitis. So, aslong as he doesnt need oxygen and he is feeding well, he may aswell be at home letting it ride out. Afterall, he doesnt want to catch an infection from the hospital!

Here are some pics from Jamies stay at the hospitals, He is doing much better, I'm sure you can see from the pics. All this means the little blighter got out of his immunisations, AGAIN!

Halloween Stylee...

Ok, so it may not be Halloween yet.... but for mummys sake lets all pretend it is...

See , mummy has a bad case of nappy brain at the moment and her head isn't really working very well, so when she saw a cute little halloween outfit for Jamie, she went ahead and bought it... in the size that he is in now- 0-3 months! Not realising, that little Jamie has an awful habit of growing on her and would very likely have grown out of it by the end of the month. Silly mummy! So to everyone:

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

In other news, Mr Jamie got lucky and escaped his injections! We got to the clinic and there were just far too many babies having immunisations that day and we were told to come back next week... So he had his first dose of baby calpol in order to prep him for the imms, but it wasn't needed afterall!

Also, I just wanted to share this pic on the right hand side (the main pic on this website). I dont know what Jamie did the night before, but it must have been fantastic, because he looks wasted! lol

7 weeks old!

Jamie is over 7 weeks old now. He's doing very well. You can see him learning and taking in everything around him. He's even giving some smiles away for free!

Mummy and daddy are in love with him more than ever now that he is exchanging cheeky smiles!

The smiles may stop for a while on Thursday when he has his motherload of injections at 2 months. (omg, he'll be 2 months old) I've heard some babies are very irritable for up to 48 hours after and some are knocked out for the duration.. Please keep your fingers crossed for me that it's the latter one!

Jamie has got himself a favourite place now. It's his baby gym. He loves it! He can sit under his baby gym for hours staring at the brightly coloured things floating around! He even gives away little squeals of excitement!

Starting the countdown to Jamie's first christmas!

If you havent already noticed, there is a new ticker at the top of the page now showing how many more sleeps there are until Jamie is spoilt rotten! It's very exciting for all of us now that we have a little person to shower in gifts. He will be at a nice age to look around but not quite old enough to demolish the christmas tree.. (give it another year...) It'll be a busy time for us and no doubt we'll leave it all to the last minute and make it much worse!

I finally got my tattoo done, had to travel to blooming kent to do it though but its here, on my shoulder like really bad sunburn that I desperate want to scratch!

Jamie and I had our 6 week check today. All is well and neither of us have developed any unsightly second heads or third hand. (the latter would be very useful though!)

The doctor simply fiddled with his man bits to make sure they are there. (he is now very much aware they are there too) and shone a bright light into his eye as he was half asleep. For his cradle cap she told me to smother him in olive oil and bake him at 200degrees. (ok, the last bit was a lie, baking would just make it worse!)

So, healthy baby- tired mummy but its all worth it knowing that he's well. He is doing well overall, putting on loooooads of weight!

As for his sleepover, I think he enjoyed it. I don't think we have a future match with him and this 4 month old girl, I don't think he's much into bald girls! It was really nice seeing my friends little girl, she's grown up so fast! It's hard to imagine that Jamie will be like that at Christmas!