Ioana;s bday and teething

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R has been teething so badly mummy is feeling the bites all over her body....knees, wrists, chin, anything R gets hold of goes straight in the mouth. Still, we managed to make a quick visit to Ioana in Finchampsted and it was such a nice thing to do. R had a bed night and mummy was in a real state as she was having caughing fits and shakes as she seems to have such a bad cold. So, today we just lazed around....daddy took R for a long walk the only sleep R had today. He finally dropped after much fighting at 11pm. THanks God mummy and daddy both had a 2 hour rest this afternoon so they can keep up if need to!

Just pray teething and sleepless nights will be better!

Here some pics!

Mxx

Christmas and else

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Here some new pictures that we took! Daddy wasn't well he had a horrible cold and now mummy suffers....hope they are not giving me this awful disease....although I quite like caughing makes everyone look at me. I figured when they all talk rubbish I caugh and then all eyes are on me...I then smile. I went to church for the Christingle service ate my food while the vicar was saying his sermon and then sang a few carols and we came home. True to he HUNGARIAN-ROMANIAN Boros family tradition after dinner, bath and just before bed we gathered around the tree mummy sang me the traditional song around the Christmas three and then we opened pressies! I got my firstest chaviest hat from aunty Noeleen it says my name on it in case my parents forget:)) well, not really its a really stylish one and such a cosy one. THANK YOU AUNTY NOELEEN. Also got my lovely T shirt from aunty Cheryl "Christmas cracker" typed on it and a white snow man which seems to have a hole in it and mummy seems to put it on her hand and make funny faces with it...
Mummy and daddy gave me a huge kiss and explained all the toys on the floor were bought in the spirit of Christmas so no pressie there for me...THANKS MA AND DA!
Anyway, I was so tired by this time I just closed my eyes and slept!
Next day mummy took me to church...wait I WILL SAY IT AGAIN MUMMY DROVE ME TO CHURCH, how did that happen? Dear me, she did well! So she then took an ill daddy to aunty CHeryl so we could give out the pressies to her and Julie and Graham.
Since we done not much I seem to be tired at all times I sleep, wake, eat, play and sleep again....its ok mummy says. I must be teething to bad, or growing or .....

Anyway hope you like the pics!

Rxx

Christmas Eve

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See how Reuben has met Father Christmas? Not sure I understand why we have a SANTA CLAUS(FATHER CHRISTMAS) again but hey....! In Romania at granny;s house we open presents as we get home from church on Christmas Eve....so after we attended the 4pm Christingle Service with daddy(who is ill with a terrible cold) we have had some food then we bathed etc and opened the presents. R was enjoying opening presents and pulling wrapping paper apart! How exciting....still we enjoyed the presents watch out for a fool display later....still, here is the picture of half asleep R in the pram visited at church by FATHER CHRISTMAS?! Its funny how we wanted this picture to be a more successful one but sometimes he just won;t be BOTHERED both FC and R.

OK! Enjoy will be back later!

Mxx

Nearly Christmas....visting Lincoln

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We have been visting Lincoln this weekend. We wanted to say Happy Christmas in person to Granny and Grandpa and we had such a nice time....! R was an angel on the way there and he was lovely while there too except at night! We were in a new place and I guess he must have felt it?! Next night was not much better either although he wasn;t as loud as before. We are back home now and he was so excited to see his own surroundings. Was interesting seeing his reaction when he entered his room and his face just lit up ....at the sight of the lights and birdy mobile above his bed! He even played there for a while. He is now sound asleep so mummy grabs this opportunity to post some pics! Talk more soon!

Mxx

Reuben is 5 months old today!

Hello Reuben is 5 months old today! Here are some pictures from our busy weekend! We are looking forward to Christmas. R has learnt about baby Jesus at the weekend as we visited Canterbury and enjoyed a nice walk in the cold then some fun drinking a well deserved warm milk in Waterstone while mummy, daddy and Annamaria had coffee.
Reuben also joined the Virgin Active sports club and soon is to try out the swimming pool. We are looking forward to Cameron coming back so we can have someone else to play with there too! So far the Smith;s are trying to live a better and more active life......but lets see can we?

I think Reuben's new year resolution will be to keep mummy fit and yummy!

OK! Here are the pics!

Mxx

Reuben reading Nursery Rhymes 5 months

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Yes, R has been busying himself with reading Nursery Rhymes and singing "All I want for Christmas is my teeeeeeeeethhhhhhh" Its so painful to watch (and how painful it must feel) him teeth! He sucks on everything, but mainly bites....he eats like a horsy but I guess its because it stops the pain for a little while. He has his third set of jabs and we had fever and loads of tummy upsets and a night of crying and we are both (mummy and daddy) looking forward to the weekend to try and sleep some.Poor R has been so good such a little hero! We love his interest in life. This week we assessed him and he did so well, we have found out that he is a social kid...he does not like toys but company....he likes people...finds them facinating. he is the most entertained when people are around...he watches people and looks out for their facial expressions....loves when people chat to him, smile and say, better and funny these two words are at this time the funniest....ITS GREAT WATCHING HIM LAUGH OUTLOUD....looking like he understands what life is all about. Mummy chats to him non stop and he just laughs when he feels like it....but then again who wouldn't .....

Anyway, here is the pic....enjoy!

Mxx

Christmas Photos Reuben Michael Smith

These pictures were taken by my professional photographer friend! We have now a Christmas Three and Reuben has really enjoyed the stocking that he borrowed that from Cameron! I guess we are a bit ahead of oursleves but wanted to share some of our excitment over the comming celebrations! + this week Reuben will be 5 months old!
Well done son...now lets see those two theeth coming through...

Mxx

Cammy and Reuby Friday Dec 7th 2007

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We are saying bye bye to Natalie and Cameron our friends...they are off to CANADA to see their family and won;t be back for a month! Wow, that means they might not recognise each other?! Well we decided to help that by taking some pics of the boys and the mummies in case they change toooo:))))
We had so much fun although as you will see in some pics the boys were a bit unsure how they are to behave....excited,grumpy (for Santa not showing) or just fed up with all this attention!

Reuben has been surprising mummy and daddy recently with some interesting patterns of sleeping....well he slept 2 nights this week a good 10pm-4am and then feed back til 6-7am and also one day he nearly had no sleep....continues to be upredictable...no show of theething but interestingly very dribbly and everything goes in the mouth and through the spaghetti fingers....

Anyway, here some recent pictures of us!

Mxx

Reuben enjoying ?! life

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Reuben had a week that was up and down...he seems to struggle with sleep and feeds so mummy is rather upset! Reuben takes most milk during the nights while he is still dozy enough to be fooled but mummy is wondering if he just does not like milk. He has 6-7 liquid ounces of milk at night and during the day just 3-4 sometimes not even that! SO although he is now on the line he actually is not progressing as well as some other friends of his:)) still he is growing like a mushroom and he is prooving to be a pretty tall boy. He is enjoying being weaned but I am not sure its as fun as it was when we started....he now makes funny faces....and gets bored easily. Sleep! Proves to be one of the most difficult things....we are still up and down all night long...with the most 4 hours of sleep at once but with noises and silent cries....I just wish I would know what is causing him distress because its lovely to see him get up sometimes chatty and happy and other times he is just screaming and screaming and screaming.

Here some pictures of Reuben's week! Some with mummy and daddy where else but Bluewater! and some today Saturday with my mates.....ahhhh weeeeeellll not sure but someone decided to cry and so I thought was a good idea to follow.

Keep looking at the pictures ....haven't I grown so much?

M&RXX

20 weeks Reuben

Here is our little Einstein....daddy was playing with him and these were the pictures that we thought were funny enough and showing just how einsteiny is our little angel. Reuben has been teething badly bless him. He is consuming bonjela like there is no tomorrow....fretful and frustrated as he is eating his fingers, ours and all the other possible teething toys.He is now eating solids 2ce a day and seems to be happy but also he is just growing and growing. He is so tall we have to put him into his 6-9 months cloths as some of the 3-6 are so short! He is now only going into week 20 but he is just so tall! He is chattering loads and today we walked around Rochester (him in the slig) and people were turning heads looking at him chatting....all he needs is a friendly face or someone to start him off and then he just never stops or it feels like it. Unfortunatley we does not seel much but he certailny does like to be netertained. His baby sitter Annamaria loves him and he loves her. They chatter and play and sing together and its nice to hear and see them.
I am getting ready for studying and my practice ....so this is it for today!

Enjoy the pics!

Mxx

21st July 2007

Some pictures of today! Reben and I had a great day! We met everyone at the Baptist Church and had fun with our new favourite toy....I think we were well loud! Then we went on the train to visit DADDY;s work and then we woed all the people there. We drove to the airport to pick up Annamaria the nanny and Reuben could not stop chattering to her and pleasing her .....so she and R are now best friends. Finally tired he fell asleep!!! AND MUMMY JUST WANTS TO SHARE THE NEWEST CUTEST PICS!

mxx

more pics of Reuben

Some of my new pictures of reuben. His new thing is to observe the globes in shops and also the lights. He gets pretty tired just taking it all in. We had a visit on Sunday from aunty Cheryl, Noeleen and Bronach and Reuben really enjoyed their company. Tomorrow we have Annamaria the nanny arrive and we are looking forward to it very much. Also to get some sleep.

xx

16th November 2007

Nearly 4 months!

Hi there

We have finally had our second immunastions and we have been so good....in fact heros! Reuben had a terrible cold which was on and off for nearly 3 weeks, it did not help that everyone around him was freely giving their bugs to us. Daddy still suffering very badly with a cold. Anyway, R has not even bat an eye lid when the first injection went in and then for the second he screamed a bit but as soon as we left the nurse;s room he was happy and smiley. We also had some porrege for the first time today. The book says to offer him as much as the tip of the spoon but he just kept on opening his mouth for more so we had about 4 small spoonfulls and loads of milk afterwards.....so here we go WEANING SHOULD COMMENCE NOW and perhaps will put on some weight too!!!

He started to love his baths with mummy. Now every time he hears the bath running he just wiggles and screams with joy! And in the water he just wants to swimm bottoms up and he is off to swim with the ducks. He screams and talks in the bath until he starts yawrning so we know he has used up all his remaining energy so he can be baby massages and fed (if enough energy left) and sleep should just happen.....

I also changed his milk to a stronger milk at night as he was getting up every 2 hours for feeds. NOw its pretty much every 4 hours! So this is good.

Here some pictures! Ah the sad news is Annamaria and Heni are leaving so.....I guess no more cuddles with them for a while they have been so much help. Also our nanny should arrive on Wednesday....hurray!

XX MARIA AND REUBEN

REUBEN 16 weeks

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Wow! We had a very busy week! Mummy seems to have gotten over a food poisoning....:)) it was horrid! Then R had a cold just as he should have had his immunasations. So he slept with mummy and daddy for few nights which meant mummy was well compos menthos. He had two friends from Romania here Hennike and Annamaria and it took exactly a week to allow them to play with him....he seems to take a long time to befriend anyone at the moment....he just wants mummy ...in a very clingy way.
Mummy went to college on Monday, but had to come back to aunty Hester as R was crying histerically so we came back to the house and he was as happy as LARRY! Next day Tuesday we tried out the Bwater cinema which was an interesting experience and we seemed to enjoyed it we even had a 2 hours sleep while mummy helped a stressed CAmeron to sleep and had lunch. TUesday eve Annamaria and Henni arrived but R was so unsettled he just was up every hour! Wednesday we kind a knew what was wrong a bit of a cold....! BY Thursday mummy managed to get ill by eating all the food and drinking the Romanian beer. So Thursday mummy was ill and Reuben had a running nose. Friday mummy and R went up to the church to meet with friends Susannah and the twins and some others.....while the girls went to Chatham for shopping....Friday pm R setteled a bit but we had a diff night again. Saturday mummy should have been in college but R missbehaved and did not want to let mummy go so she was stuck home with everyone. We went to do some food shopping and popped into Bwater. He seemed to sleep a bit better but again......not as good. He seems to scream when he wakes and wants his food straight away.

Today Sunday we went to HIll Song church in London. It was a very interesting church in the Dominion Theatre in London. IT was just a strange one....way too charismatic for mummy. The message there was very energetic for a tired mummy and daddy but we could understand it was meant to energise and make us feel ready to tackle the week ahead.....mummy is being sarcastic about some things.....right now! Nevertheless she is trying to be good and love God despite the little difficulties!

So here some pics from London today with mummy and daddy!

Mxx