In Romania

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We have arived well and safely in Romania and R has been relativley good if we were to ignore the thre hours screaming on the flight. He was ok ish but ten his 10:30 nap was left out so he carried around his exhastion and made some people's flight rather awful...one woman on the flight showed me a rather discussting sign and another was putting her fingers in her ears....I partly understood as I used to travel before R and think "kids were a punishment to travel with". We have hoever survived and in Hungary he eventualy fell asleep and slept the main part of the car trip between Hungary and Romania. It was brilliant as I was shattered so even I got a short nap.Today he napped three times each time over 40 mins and this evening he ws eager to go to bed just after 7:30 here which is 5:30 in Uk. He must have still a difficulty with the difference in time.

Today he crawled in all the 7 rooms and he enjoyed exploring the carpets and the different surfaces around the house. he also spent time playing and showing off his DVDs to Hanah and Hanniel.Betty and Harry also popped in but only for a short time. We will post more pictures on the blog but here is a capture of happy R in granny's arms today. What a joy he was able to stick his two front teeth in a nice cold cucumber.

Bye for now...hopeing to get a little sleep.

Mxx

another week closer to the 8 months mark

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Reuben has been ill this week...well it started last week Friday so today we have a week since we have been ill. He had a terrible dihoreah and we were back and forth seeing drs who seemed to think it wasn;t a big deal still his nights were pretty distrurbed by crying of pain and ours too. He is also badly teething he keeps biting everything....
In terms of developments Reuben can now make small steps with us holding his hands, he crawls pretty successfully everywhere (especially if he seems wires and things he can reach and are dangerous....)and is exercising his belly laughs every time he can. He loves mummy playing with him and this week all he seemed to wanted was mummy and daddy. NOt even Annamaria could cheer him up when normally she is the kind a favourite person. We have not swam this week as he had the tummy troubles but we have done other things like walk around Rochester and enjoying the swings but mainly crawling and being out in the fresh air.

Here some pictures to show us again in action....

Mxx

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY (this time in Eastern Europe and home)

8th MARCH IS INTERNATIONAL WOMEN:S DAY! -

Wow, another week of interesting events and one more week and we are off to Romania. This week its been difficult although finally it felt R was hitting a nice routine of falling asleep at around 6:30-7:00pm but then the last two nights have been a real struggle with him sitting up and crying in dispair...it was so sad to see but equally very sad that I felt so useless....Poor child born into such a cruel world where pain hits so hard! It seems his upper teeth are comming! This week Reuben has enjoyed his friend's company on Wednesday at the mums and babies group and then home with Cameron and JOseph after being on a walk...in the sunshine. (See picture with all three of them enjoying baby einstein) THen he had a special pacakge from granny Smith with a nice kinitted jumper to keep him warm in Romania. Also he spent an afternoon at Bwater, this time outside watching the swans and enjoying the sunshine.
Today he woke u with fever and he had now dhioreah for 3 days so we took him to the doctors and he received some salty water that should fix him. His day was slightly disturbed by all this discomfort but he has dropped of relativley easily...
Mummy spent the day in college learning about Depression and Self Harm (exciting on women;s day) and now she is happy to be home until Monday!

Enjoy the pics!

xxx

Mothers Day!

Wow! this is certainly a first! I am a mummy and I had such a nice surprise this morning.My sweety boy woke me up with a lovely mummy;s day card and off course my darling husband has spent a very special day with all of us in London enjoying the sights that I fell in love with first time I came to London. I love the South Bank and so we walked all the way from nearly London Bridge to Buckingham Palace and ended the day with a wonderful look at the sun set (from St George's hights (building close to the BBC and All Souls) and a pizza express meal.... Although the weather wasn;t the best we had fun! Reuben was so excited he only slept between 9:30am -3pm for 20 mins. Then again he fell asleep at 3pm to 5ish when we went to St George;s Hights. I am hoping to download a video of Reuben working on his muscles. HOPE YOU WILL ENJOY THE PICS AND THE VIDEO:S TOO!

28th February 2008

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We have been busy today with meeting friends and keepig up everyone! Its 9Pm and Reuben is active as he would have just woken up. NOt sure where his energy comes from but he has certainly got loads.

Here some photos that we took today of Reuben playing with Joseph and on his own under the coffee tables. He certainly enjoyed company and was in his element.
This evening we discovered his second tooth (bottom) has come through....

xx

The DAY in LONDON

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Reuben spent the day well and truely in London! Wow he got so excited in the end he was jumping up and down in the train and screaming with delight to the entertainment of the passengers. In short this is what we did, (after a very noisy night)we met up with the Jarvis's (that is Reuben's friend Cameron and his parents Natalie and Carlton) in the Rain Forest Caffee in Picadily Circus and we had a lovely breakfast at 11:30am. This was also lunch. We enjoyed the lovely rainforest and the tropical birds, the fish and the monkeys&elephans, Crocodiles.... not to mention the thunder the rain...all very exciting feeling like we should go and see all this for real.We did not take many pics as R decieded just before we were ready to go to take a nap...all the excitment of train, underground and rainforest must have got him well and truley tired. Still he woke before we came out so as you can see he has enjoyed being a cheecky monkey, talking to the crocodile/alighator thing...and was not phased by them at all. He is gona love danger that is FOR SURE!!!
We then walked up Hamleys where we all enjoyed the toys....then to Oxford Street where we popped into Debenhams for a nappy change and a sleep. We then ate and walked some more all the way to Charring Cross where our train waited for us. Got to Eltham where our car was parked and then we popped into the chinese there for a quick meal before we hit the road home. R slept, woke, ate, and finally bathed and collapsed into sleep after daddy rocked him to sleep in his pushchair...:))cheeky monkey...peps too excited!!!

here some pics of today...........

News

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We still have one tooth, mummy is still knackered from the sleepless nights, still swimming and still alive. Some pictures to keep you all entertained. Ah, they are of Reuben playing and watching baby einstein, and one in the chinese eating a prawn cracker. Ah, and trying to crawl.

XX MARIA