Can't believe Abigail is 6 months old already (well actually 27 weeks now!), but she is...and she seems to get more photogenic the more the camera is pointed at her. And that's quite a lot in our house!
Back Knacked!
What a bizarre weekend...!
So last night we had a few people round for drinks (saving the baby sitter passes for closer to Christmas!), and decided that we'd watch the Hatton v Mayweather Boxing Match. It was a long slog but the lads at least managed to stay awake for it. Result was obviously wrong, but it was a cracking fight.
I then went to bed this morning whilst Jen was up with Abigail. Later when Jen brought Abigail up for her morning nap, I got up and was just walking across the landing when BANG, my back went! Pain probably like I've never felt before and literally couldn't move it. Was having trouble catching my breath so went back to the bedroom to try and sit on the bed...worst thing I could have done. - I then ended up stuck in the position of the bloke (or woman!?) pictured above!! Yep I was doubled over like some fat bloke you see in the cartoons. Couldn't move up or down and was still struggling for breath. In the end Jen had to ring an Ambulance....!!!
7 minutes later (impressive!) there were now 2 paramedics standing in our bedroom trying to work out what was going on. Turns out that my back has apparently gone into some sort of spasm, and it's a case of waiting for it to sort itself out!
I still look totally ridiculous when trying to move and everything is an effort. Thinking back, you've no idea what a complete eejit I felt this morning I tell ya!
I'm already crawling the walls a bit, but I think I've now realised what laptops were invented for.
BEWARE! Baby Bites
It may look small but it's definitely there and blo*dy sharp! We first noticed it on the 25th and now look forward to many 'eventful' months as the rest come through...!!
Poor Abigail, I get the impression she's already had enough of the constant gum ache.
Take That.....Again!
Our seats were a lot better this time - approx 15 rows from the main stage and 10 rows from the centre stage. This was without doubt the closest I've been to the performers at a concert and it does make a bid difference like. (I've only ever been to Arena and Stadium gigs though).
They did all the well known 'back in the day' songs plus quite a few from their most recent album. The stage show itself was something else, - you couldn't fail to be impressed.
We were also on the end of a row so when they walked back through the crowd from the centre stage to the front - Jen was in grabbing distance...which she obviously did as you can just about make out from their reactions in the video below..!
Also got a couple of other quite good videos; Patience and Only Takes A Minute.....And needless to say there's also a shed load of photos Here.
See previous post title!
Yep Jen thrives on a bit Baby Competition!! This time it's the Evening Chronicle Baby Idol 2007 contest.
To be fair, at least I knew this one was on the cards, given that I went with Jen and Abbie on the day of the shoot. We went on the last day as we'd heard it had been like a cattle market all week with excited mothers determined to get the bairn in the paper dressed in his/her best clobber!
The photographer asked me to sit Abigail on a table and support her back. Given this was about 4 weeks ago, Abigail didn't take kindly to the whole sitting up thing due to her age, and I had to support her front too. I can't believe though that the knacka-jack photographer never thought to mention that my hand would be in the shot on the full size photo...!! We were under the impression it was just head photos they were taking.
The photos are available to buy on the web as a pack for the less than cheap price of 50 quid! which makes the fact that my hand is in the shot all the more ridiculous!!
(Shown in this post are both the photo from the web and also the newspaper).
The competition itself is judged in typical X-Factor style by the number of text votes received, which is something else I don't agree with! Anyway if you want to vote for Abigail you need to do the following;
TEXT: ECBABY 709 to 84080
(Cost is 25p)
Gotta worry about my Missus at times...!
Messing around on the computer upstairs last night and Jen shouts "Abigail's photo's in The Sun!".
Turns out the The Sun newspaper is doing a bonniest baby contest and of course Jen couldn't resist submitting a pic of the apple of her eye....
Click here to see the infamous pic of a very young Abigail. - Takes a while for the picture to come up due to the 18,000 entries!!
Early development of Night Vision
If the Auld Wives Tale about "eating Carrots helping you to see in the dark" is true then Abigail's getting an early start!
We gave her Baby Rice for the first time last week and although she ate it, she was less than impressed with the taste. Yesterday Jen did the blended carrot thing and to our surprise it seemed to go down quite well.
I could comment on the COMPLETE difference in her nappies as a result today but I'll leave that to your imagination. Couldn't really do it justice anyway until they invent smelly vision!!
