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Barely awake

A little bear sleeping!

Happy

A happy Thomas. He has started laughing this week which is wonderful. Tonight he was laughing everytime Tracy called him a cheeky monkey!

Hedgehog

This is the first hedgehog I have seen for about 20 yrs. This little fella was wandering about the estate last night looking for food. I had forgotten how tiny they are - you usually see them all spread out!

Developments

Thomas has been sleeping thru again (since last Thursday) which is great. Unfortunately getting him to go to bed is proving quite stressful. Thomas has not being letting us put him to bed. Instead he screams and SCREAMS getting quite distressed and it takes a long time to settle him down again. There seems no reason for these outbursts as he has fed. We are racking our brains for a solution to this problem as it is getting us down. Bedtime has changed from being a special time to becoming a bit of a nightmare. Hopefully this is just a phase and will pass soon.

After food nap

Thomas often falls asleep after his food. These naps generally don't last that long. 2 or 3 mins and Tracy loves the contented look on his face. Angelic?

The long sleeper

Thomas has slept thru the last 2 nights. 12hrs and 11hrs wonderful! He has also discovered the joys of long afternoon naps sleeping for 2hrs this aft.

The garage door has gone, finally.

One free ad, one phone call and one garage door has gone to a better home. Somewhere in Darton.

The Hilton in Manchester

Had a really interesting morning in Manchester today. Went to a seminar/presentation from Softease where Dr Baldev Singh presented about technologies of the future and how they might impact on education. He was an excellent presenter with a lot of humour and demonstrated some great examples of how the new Web2.0 technologies are being used by educationalists. He has really inspired me to have a go with these new technologies and try to get the teachers in Barnsley fired up with them. Voicethread was one that I was particularly struck by as it seems to have a lot of potential within the classroom. Users are able to upload pictures, add narrative to them whilst annotating and let other people watch and add comments to the presentation. Real collaboration on line.

It was a shame that the Honeycomb product didn't inspire as much as he did. Or the journey to and from Manchester which was a nightmare as usual. At least the Hilton makes a good picture!

Thomas watching Honky on the swing

Thomas doing a jig

At least Thomas will always make us SMILE!!

Bonfire Night

Last night was not much fun for the Rees household or other members of the Chilcombe Place corner. Our friendly neighbour firework terrorist was up to his usual annual invasion of the night sky. Trapped in our home we tried to bath and bed Thomas as usual whilst the windows shook. Luckily for us Thomas slept through the whole night (in the kitchen under the fan!) but I know that Matthew and Kerry's children had little sleep until gone 10.45pm. When he was confronted about the noise, Karl was his usual not my fault have you spoke to Lettuce it was them down the road pathetic answers. He also had a team of supporters behind him to add spice to the confrontation! Bet you wouldn't have complained if it was a Saturday or Sunday night?? Well yes I would have because I have 2 month old baby trying to sleep!!!!


The morning after the night before.....

Tracy's car looks like it has been driven through Beirut, not parked outside a house in Barnsley!! Mine isn't much better either. Matthew next door has a dent in the wing of his Merc!! There must be a better way to spend bonfire night, surely.

Thomas's adaptation of the Baddha Konasana!

Two Firsts

Tonight we are trying 2 firsts for Thomas. Firstly we are trying to get him to sleep in a dreampod (kind of a sleeping bag for babies) and secondly we are putting Thomas to sleep in his cot not his moses basket.

Thomas looks so tiny in his cot all alone. Let's just hope he sleeps well.