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!

Our BIG smiler!

Jamie was 6 weeks old yesterday... textbook smiling time! He'd been practicing smiling on and off for about a week, although it was still quite random and although you may get a smile whilst talking to him, you couldn't make him smile....

Well now you can!

Take a look at these pics, he was smiling at mummy for ages this morning! I think he knackered himself out with all the smiles because he quite happily woke up, smiled loads then dozed back off!

We also had our little man weighed yesterday.. a whooping 12lb 1oz! Practically the weight of a 4 month old! He's doing nicely, apart from a touch of cradle cap and a few spots (which are clearing up on his face but getting worse everywhere else!) he's fine! He's even having a sleepover (with a girl... shhhh) on sunday.....

See Jamie learning!

Jamie is really beginning to take on the world. He is now aware that he has arms and legs (aswell as sharp claws to go with them!) and is enjoying using them to express himself! He is practicing smiling, although he still is only doing it randomly rather than a reaction to anything particular. At the moment, his way of expressing himself is through eye contact, waving about his arms and legs like a manic traffic cop and making noise. (yes, he is particularly fond of the third!)

Here are two short videos of him reacting in his bouncer. You can see he is staring at something (its toys on the bouncers handle that we are swinging) and kicking his legs in excitement!

Smile or just wind?

You probably read that Jamie is beginning to react to us more now... he is...! Today he was giving out a few smiles although they were very random and not really a reaction to anything. This makes me question wether they are genuine or just wind. I myself reckon he is practicing smiling and although he wont smile yet if you talk to him, he can do it, just not on cue!

I have the camera out, be warned! Here is a pic taken today to show exactley how he is reacting to everyone around him...

It's a picture of Jamie and my little bro. You can just see the thinking going on in Jamie's head as he stares at him. (He's probably thinking the same as me; 'damn that boy needs a haircut!')

I also found this pic of him.. taken when he was 11 days old. Anyone else think he has freakishly enormous hands?!! (well what you can see of them!)

Showing off our little man!

We are very proud of our little boy. I just thought we'd share these pictures taken at a month old of him reacting to us.

He's growing so fast, we haven't got any genuine smiles out of him yet. (atleast not ones not followed by baby puke) But he is really starting to react to our voices. When people talk to him, he turns his head to stare at you. His mouth moves as if he wants to talk but he hasn't figured out how to use it.

He even moans back at you (just like daddy...) when you talk to him. He is a right little attention seeker (again- just like daddy) and will cry if he's bored and want's talking to. Its so nice to finally see that he is taking everything in...

One month old!

Jamie mid-sneeze!

Well, he is 4 weeks today so that makes him one lunar month old... although technically he won't be a month old until the 9th! Just to make life more confusing!

He's really starting to develop now. He is beginning to focus on objects and people's faces and I even managed to get a half-reaction out of him today! It wasn't a smile (although it will be so nice when he starts smiling) but when I spoke to him his face changed and he opened his mouth as if he wanted to talk... This was followed swiftly by his eyes rolling to the back of his head as he preceeded to doze off in the winding position!

He is a chunky little man! We had him weighed today and he is 10lb 11oz! Big for his age but theres no surprise there! Considering newborn clothes generally go up to 11lbs he doesn't have long left until we are breaking open the 0-3month stash.

Right I really must get on and take some more pictures... I'm working on a very embarrassing page for all of Jamie's immediately family to pose for piccs with him... please form an orderly queue! xx