Asleep with sleeping grandfather Conrad

First passport arrives ... and is bigger than his head (as well as already not recognisable).

A cuddle with Cat

From this time last year, taken by James on our holiday in France.

Brings home how much he's grown.

Just over 6 months old, but I have finally put up some photos from our trip to France in April, with separate collections for the signposted tumulus we stopped to explore, and the valley of monkeys.

As usual, most of the photos are of Charles.

crazyscot put these up a while ago, taken at a picnic I had on my birthday: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crazyscot/tags/charles. A couple of them are doing duty as userpics already.

ewx has just posted some photos which include 3 utterly gorgeous ones of Charles:
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/gallery/photos/2007/09-03

Thanks to james_r, from his New Year's Eve party.

My favourites:
Tony and Charles
Doting mummy
Discreet feeder

I had a bit of a photo session with Charles this morning, and added the best ones to the November collection. I kept trying to capture his grin, but failed, although this one nearly gets it:



He's slept peacefully for a suspiciously large amount of the day. I fear a long evening coming on.

And I've lost the ability to cull nearly-identical photos.

Some new photos of Charles with his paternal grandfather, his maternal grandmother, and his new pushchair.

I think there's a rule that all passport photographs are deeply unflattering.



This one was taken at Snappy Snaps just outside Lion Yard. They put a sheet down on the floor, we laid baby on it, and they patiently took digital photographs until they got one that had a chance of meeting the requirements (it took both of us - me holding his arms by his side and Tony patiently turning his head back upwards). From there it took about 10 minutes of them messing about with cropping the photograph and printing us four copies in approved passport size. Not bad for six pounds. While we were waiting Tony got the form from the post office, so all I need to do now is to find a respectable member of the community (hi emperor!) to sign the back of a photo and we have acheived passport application.

This was after we'd successfully made it to lunch with Tony's colleagues, during which Charles needed both a feed and a nappy change, and before we went to the library. We were all a bit tired and frazzled when we got back home. I've started leaking milk everywhere, which is a bit tiresome, but I think better than not having enough for Charles. I should probably talk to someone about donating to the milk bank at the Rosie.

Today is Tony's first day back at work, so I did all the getting up in the night last night. Bit tired this morning and need to change the bedsheets following a stealth wee incident during his last nappy change.

My weight is still falling fairly rapidly, I think still mostly fluid retention. My feet and toes are almost back to a sensible shape, though my ankles are still fairly swollen. I was around 89kg when I got pregnant and around 109kg at the end. Today I'm just under 96kg, so I've lost about 2/3 of the pregnancy weight already. I've plenty of room for reduction, given that my preferred weight is something around 70-75kg, but I've no intention of worrying about my weight (as opposed to my general fitness level and nutrition intake) as long as Charles is breastfeeding. Interesting to observe the changes though.

Photos from my camera during our hospital stay.

Keith's photos from the morning of the birth.

James's photos from the hospital visit.

A few random photos since we got home.

I think the only other camera-wielder who has had access is fivemack, though we hope to make it to at least the early part of pub on Thursday.