bless him

Babycake said 'prawn' yesterday. This morning, he began the day by creating epaulettes from toast. One step forward...

keeping my end up

All the carping today about the NHS and maternity care has got me more than a little agitated, now I've only got about 15 weeks to go...As you may recall from this very blog I had a rather long labour, but two marvellous midwifes who helped me through the whole thing and kept me out of hospital. Even so, it was scary and difficult and the physical and emotional recovery took me about a year. At the time I consoled myself with the thought that I would never go through it again and here I am, about to go through it all again.

Mr McMuffin seems more relaxed this time, assuming I'll have a home birth and moaning that he can't be doing with the birth pool as he can't be bothered to empty it out. Apparently it was a real pain and took about half an hour to do. I would have helped, only I think I was being stitched at the time. However, I'm probably more anxious (if that's possible) than I was the first time and the bloody news doesn't help!

black mountain

This band are fantastic. Their second album is very melodic and heavy. Great stuff. Here is the first track, Stormy High, on the album to give you a little taste of the joys to be had. By the way, their first album is excellent too.

good news

I went for an internal interview at work today for funding to train as an Approved Social Worker. I just heard that I was successful. I am now looking forward to having six months off work to do the training. Mrs McMuffin is looking forward to it less that I am because the training starts in April and the new baby is born in May, so I will not be around much during the day.

babycake talks to the animals

We took Babycake to a farm a couple of months ago. I hadn't really looked at the photos until a few days ago. I thought this one was lovely.

believe it or not....

Babycake is two today. Happy birthday, darling baby boy. He has just had a big chunk of cake which he clutched to his chest like some sort of prize while wiping the sticky stuff through his hair. Lovely.

love is the sweetest thing

Mr McMuffin and I were both born arguing and unsurprisingly we just love to disagree on practically everything, except how gorgeous Babycake is, of course. We have recently become totally united in our campaign against the stupid residents who put fences and posts all over a common area of lawn to stop people parking on it. It looks such a mess and is such a hazard to people walking on it, that we both take great delight in removing pieces of it. We like to compare notes and giggle about how pissed off they must be when they find the fencing and rebuild and install it, only for us to uproot it again. Ha! A common enemy certainly increases our affection for each other. Is it just us, or are you part of a couple that finds their love enhanced by doing weird things like having romantic dinners, or walks at sunset?

it's that time of year again

Macworld starts today with Steve Jobs' speech about all the Apple goodness that will keep me obsessed for the coming year. I am already beginning to drool at the rumours of a super slim Macbook (0.8" thick) and an updated Apple TV. It all kicks off at about 18:00. I can't wait. Mrs McMuffin thinks that I have joined some kind of cult. It's not true, I just love Apple stuff and I would love it just as much if it had a Dell or Microsoft badge on it. In fact, that is one of the things I like about Apple. No obvious badges!

babycake is lovely, most of the time

Yesterday Babycake ate porridge oats with honey and milk, toasted sour dough bread with a little bit of cheese spread on it, a bit of apple, banana, three corn crisp bread things, three strawberries, two tomatoes, six grapes, a date, a prune, a small bit of Edam cheese, a few mouthfuls of apple juice, a small sandwich filled with curried chicken, a small piece of cucumber, a babychino, a marshmallow, a dried fruit bar, a biscuit, several drinks of water, half a baked potato, a boiled egg mixed with some mayonnaise, a pot of banana yogurt and about a pint of milk. He fell asleep in my arms at about 20:00. At about 21:00, while he was still asleep, he vomited everything he had eaten all over me. It's the little things that make it all worthwhile.

very cool...

Our new Phil & Ted's pushchair arrived today. After a little bit of swearing, Babycake and I managed to put it together. We got a black one and it's very cool looking. The only problem is that Babycake refuses to sit in it. Hopefully he will get over that pretty soon.