Yawn....

As faithless once said... 'I can't get no sleep'..

Thomas in his london welsh babygro ... I think red suits him, but I am a bit biased being his mother., it syas born to be a dragon...mmm maybe the great redeemer of Welsh rugby is in our midst

Rydd I byth an chwarae gyda y season! which means I'll never play for England.

'Ek sal eenday vit Suidafrika speel' which means 'one day I'll play for South Africa... not sure his dad will be happy with that.

Jen says

Hi all, I thought I would add my bit to the blog (for a change). Thomas is sleeping so I have a free moment. We are doing fine, just getting used to the lack of sleep and generally life being very different. My mom is here which is a hugfe help, I think I would really be exhausted if she was not here. She's taken him for a couple of nights whilst Dan and I have been able to catch up on much needed sleep.

Anyway hope you are all well, thanks for all the good wishes that many of you have left on the blog. I'll keep pestering dan to keep the blog updates with pics.

Jen xxx

The weekend

We were off to Nigel and Fiona's daughter Georgina's first communion day on Saturday. Here are some photos of Heather Foney, Me, El, Mary, and Jo Macdonald with Tom to keep you all in the frame. Oh and there is a picture of one of our friends dogs...with a Paul Smith tie on....great!

Wow

Bethan, my god-daughter has learned to ride her pink bike... brilliant Beth, great stuff. Tom was up for a while last night, it seems we take five steps forward and two back but we are getting there. Mary is in town for three weeks or so its a great help while he and we find our feet. Pics coming soon...

Daddies Boyo

Thanks to Natalie, Dulcie and Penny for this lovely soft toy! Brilliant.

Dance Moves

Tom has been learning some dance moves for the clubs of Kingston today...here they are. i don't know as soon as i go back to work eh...it all happens!

Jane heads back

Jane heads back today and it means its me and Jen on our own with Tom until Mary gets in on Thursday. Thanks to Jane for all the help...see you at the wedding.... Happy birthday to Tom's great grandmother, Phyllis Bowen who is 94 today. Penbwlydd Hapus I ti.

Saturday night

Hampton court weekender

Thanks to everyone for giving us amazing stuff at the baby shower. with the cheques given to us we have bought an acre of Amazonian rainforest for Tom, you can see the certificate here (spot the spelling mistake! doh). Anyway been to Hampton court today to finalise the wedding stuff and to show Jane the garden room and check that people are booked into the hotel etc. Happy 94th Birthday to Toms great Grandma Phyllis for Sunday, have a great one Gram x x x x x.

Jane has arrived from New York

Well that's it. Last day of my paternity leave. Jane has arrived today too to give us a hand. Here are some of the latest pics for you... We are going to go to Kingston for a walk this afternoon I think. Jen has the last checkup tommorrow from the widwife and then the health visitor takes over from there. Had a great sleep last night only fed him twice...probably a one off but who knows...

Wednesday.....

We had a long noght last night. Tom took ages to get to sleep (1.5 hours!) but when we got him down he only woke once. He seems to be in a bit of a funny mood the last two days...i.e. taking longer to breastfeed and sleeping irregularly, but we will percevere. Martin popped in today to say hi.....photos coming soon

Tuesday

Apologies for any typos, i am typing this at 11:20pm and am tired...

Well its been a STEEP learning curve. The first day and night we were demand feeding and it has taken its toll on all three of us. It was really difficult, however we seem to have got through it now and we are doing a three hour feed routine which seems to be working well and allowing us to maximuse the time we can sleep. (We only are getting up 2 /3 times a night at the moment) but this may be a 'freak' of that last 2 nights so we can't count on anything. But so far so good. The midwife came today and said she thought we were doing really well and after we go in on Saturday to check Jen over then thats all the support we need and we won't see them again. They have been great. Rob has popped over from SA yesterday, Mandy and Dave were over and today Louise and Ian popped in. We web cammed Wales for my Mum and Dad to see Baby Tom today, they were well chuffed.

It is very hectic at the moment and we have to be very careful when people can come as often it gets tiring for Jen but thanks to everyone again for their support at this time. Anyway, so far so good, enjoy the pics

xxxx

Tom 'latest' pics

Tom seems to have settled down fine at home here today, so far so good. We are looking forward to his first night, although this may be quite tricky. Notice 'Nando' our cat in the background.... he is showing that nothing phases him, even a baby. tom seems to be sleeping quite a lot and pretty content. Jen is breastfeeding him really well so far and he is very much excited about the rugby match between Wales and Australia tommorrow, although he reassures me that the Aussies will win by quite a few points unlike last week but Wales will still win the world cup. What a legend. He also said his tips for the Epsom Derby tommorrow are 1st Authorized 2nd Salford Mill 3rd Archipenko, finally the little chap predicted a record SA win against England...what a sports pundit.

A fairly good night

Jen and Tom have had a fairly good nights rest, Jen is still tired and the hospital is very, very warm. They have a room of thier own with shower etc but its a pretty warm day and the room has hot....I am going to pick them up later on today. There is quite a lot of 'admin' to do at the hopsital and he is having some final checks before leaving. We will get some nice pics of leaving the hosptial today and post them later on. Thanks to everyone for thier kind messages on the blog, by phone and via text. will keep you up to date here... Thanks again for your support, we know the coming weeks will not be easy so please be patient with us!