our house picnic

mummy and daddy had planned for us to have a BBQ picnic today at carsington water with momma's friends nina (and tillybee), sally, sophie and morag but it started to rain so we couldn't go. instead we all had a picnic in our house ('cept soph couldn't make it as sniper bob got ill). i met morag's new children, courtney lee who is 3 and lucy who is 18 months. they played with me lots.

after dinner, the rain stopped so we went for another walk on the canal. this time i was pushed, not carried. morag and courtney lee and lucy did not come walkies cos they had to go and collect morag's new little boy, lewis, from school. every time momma turned to talk to her friends, she crashed my pram and i woke up. i wish daddy had driven; mummy's are better at carrying!

favourite fings

just now, my most favourite fings are

BOOKS...

BATHS...

AND BANANAS!

canal walk to cromford

today momma and daddy took smelmo dog and gandy dog and i for a walk along the canal. we walked (erm, i was carried) from ambergate to cromford which is about 6 miles there and back. it was sooo pretty.

it was really sunny so i had to wear my hat, 'cept it kept falling off and it turned out my mum needed it more than i; 'cos she got really red. doesn't she look silly? get your own hat momma!

when we reached high peak junction, we all stopped for a rest and an ice cream. i was allowed a taste of daddy's strawberry cornetto. i like strawberry cornetto! momma did not share.

on the way back we saw a mummy duck with a whole eight ducklings. they were only a few days old and very cute. they were hiding in the reeds so as you could hardly see and when mother duck said 'quack quack quack', they all came back - not like in that horrid song my mum sings to me!

can you see the baby duckings?

dye baby dye!

today momma took me to nina and tilly rebecca's house for the afternoon. i had fun playing with tilly's rattle and tried to include tilly, though she mostly ignored me! i got a bit more of a response when i hit her with the rattle but then mummy called me a 'bully' and took the rattle away! as ever i was able to use my wit and charm to get momma (and tilly) back on side pretty quickly.





you may wonder what momma and nina were getting up to whilst i was sweet talking tilly rebecca (i know i did). well it was something called tiedying and was very messy. everything that was white is now pink, including my grows... but momma says i'm man enough to pull off pink! momma made gifts for evie and lexi and cousin bertha (who is still just a bulge). nina made pink pants!

nina showed my momma all different ways of wearing me.

when nina and mummy had finished dying (though they still here), my daddy came and picked us up and took me and momma to stay at nanna sue's. i love staying with nanna sue; she sings to me (she forgets the words) and shakes me up and down (though mummy thinks this may qualify as child abuse).

i think today was a good day.

another girlfriend!

last week, another of my momma's friends, amy had a baby. she's called evelyn jane or 'evie' and she's very beautiful. i think my momma now wants evie and i to be special friends. but what about tilly rebecca? evie is lots younger and smaller than me (being a big boy; a whole 17lb4), but our mummys say this won't matter when we're older.

on safari

today, my momma and her frinds took me on safari. it was a big long way and i was sicky in the car but when we got there i saw lots of animals. once on safari, i did not have to stay in my car seat, so i sat on jenny's knee in the front. i was a little worried by some of the animals; especially when they stuck their heads in the car.

when it was time to get out of the car, to visit the bats and snakes and stuff, lydia carried me in the wrap. i liked travelling on someone different 'til she dropped mayonaise on me and dressed me in a silly hat. momma says it's all in a day's work for a baby.

new girlfriend

today my momma's friend nina came to visit with her new baby, tilly rebecca. i think my mummy and tilly's mummy hope tilly and i will be great friends. i hope she likes ginger boys! tilly is ever so clever though; she tells her mum when she needs a poo so she can catch it in a bucket. tilly is always hungry too. tilly's mummy is a bf, a bw, a ec, a cs... i think my mummy's just a momma.

it's all good!

ok, so i'm a whole six weeks old and getting used to this baby lark. i've worked out that if i cry, the big people come running and get all in a fluster trying to work out what i want (even though mostly it's obvious). momma is getting better at understanding me i think; she used to just shove her boob in my face every time i made a muff!

my daddy runs especially fast 'cos he does not like noise! sometimes i get cuddles, played with or sung to and sometimes i get taken for walks in my wrap or car rides in my special seat (i mostly use this time to kip).

i think i've met just about everyone in the jackson family now - except auntie beth, uncle circle and cousin lexl (who has a blog too - copycat). apparently they live very far away and i will meet them next year. auntie bo,uncle kyle and auntie diane like to hug me, grandad gray makes rude noises on my belly and nanna sue likes to bath me...alot!

also in our family are 'randy' gandy and (sm)elmo, daddy's big doggies. i like to watch them but sometimes they lick my face, which i don't like so much. the cats are more my size and sometimes i grab their tails!

i also discovered smiling this week; it's nearly as clever as crying at making the big people pay attention. some folk make silly noises and tickle me to try and make me do it. momma says nobody loves ginger boys, but i think perhaps if i smile lots and lots then maybe...

apparently, if i come out ginger, it means daddy must have a ginger gene, but daddy says he definitely does not have one of them; eveyone says i look like my daddy but momma says that's just cos i'm a baldy!

momma finished my nursery today ('cept for furniture - which she says is overated). a nursery is where big boys sleep. i think it's the bestest nursery there ever was! i enjoyed playing with my toys in my brand new big boy's nursery.

all brand new!

on the 28 october i finally arrived in darley dale birth centre after rather a long wait. tis a bit of a messy business being born and i doubt i'd have bothered if given the choice; it was a bit of a fight and did quite a nasty to my poor brave momma, who was rushed straight away to be mended. i had a big bump on my head where i'd got stuck but no one seemed to care about that - i had a headache and was very cross about it!

nanna sue says momma must have eaten loads of chicken korma before i came along 'cos i weighed in at 9lb 1oz.

i didn't see my momma straight away cos she was poorly. my daddy hugged me very tight at the hospital 'cos i seemed worried and angry. mostly i was hungry! by the time my mummy met me i was clean and clothed and fast asleep.

we stayed at the hospital for 2 days and then at the birth centre for 2 more. momma couldn't feed me cos she had no blood and said her bottom hurt lots. i got really hungry so my daddy fed me from a cup. we had visits from nanna sue and grandpa gray (in this pic he looks like the one who's had a labour).


when we got home momma and daddy said they didn't know what they'd let themselves in for. when they did not seem to understand what i was asking for, i shouted louder. daddy said that him and mum should try sleeping when i did.

at first, momma needed lots of help feeding me, and i got bad tummy aches in the evenings.

now i've had a bit of time to get used to it, i don't think being a real born baby will be so bad; people come running when i call, i get fed every two hours and carried everywhere and i have so many visitors and presents and everyone says i'm ever so beautiful (handsome i reckon).