kimmings

Sleep - please, more sleep.

31-01-2008

Jenny told me this morning that Riley woke 6 times last night. I lost count at 3 and spent most of the early hours going over everything in the entire world in the most minute detail. scrutinising every choice I had, am still to make and reviewing each outcome. Needless to say I didn't get much sleep. It's been one long slog today just to stay awake. I miss the days of Uni where staying in bed til noon wasn't a problem.

I'm supposed to be designing a new page for the website at work today... but I'm having a hard time staying on target long enough; it's been a day where I haven't stopped all day, but I'm still unsure what I've managed to achieve.

Catch up

18-05-2007

It's been hectic as ever the last few weeks. I've been working hard, i have a project deadline approaching fast - and I'm still awaiting content and don't have a stable test environment.

Riley is gaining weight pretty quick - the health visitor thinks he may be the largest out of our three offspring.

He's starting to look more like Bailey did as a baby, which I love and I think Jenny does too.

I went out on the blades at lunch despite the fine rain and wind, I really need to get out on the Halfords car park this evening once the kids are in bed, but as we got the bunk beds delivered yesterday and Bailey and Bella spent their first night in the same room (which was interesting, but not entirely a suprise - there was a hell of a lot of noise from up stairs last night) I'm not sure I'll get the opportunity. We'll have to wait and see. I really want to get somewhere smooth and flat so I can practise the harder stuff, the spin turns and front-backwards transitions. After seeing Brook make it look so easy, I've had a real surge.

Riley's First Bottle - Bailey's First Camp Out

04-05-2007

Riley had his first taste of formula last night after we decided that it probably wasn’t healthy for Jenny, feeding every hour for 30 minutes throughout the night and then ensuring that World War Three didn’t break out between the two warring factions (Bailey and Bella) in the day time while having a little person permanently attached to her breast. It was a little too much to expect for one person.

I’m certainly not disappointed; it means that I get some quality time with the little guy, feeding, nappy changes and cuddles which I was missing out on due to my lack of lactating breasts. I think the first night went pretty much as expected… I think little babies are like pigs and dogs in the sense that unless you stop them, they’ll eat 'til they make themselves vomit. Which is what poor Riley did, he couldn’t get enough like "What’s this good stuff? Why wasn’t I given this earlier?"

I got to feed him this morning for the first time and it was brilliant. It was probably the first time he was awake on me and content, not sniffing the air for a nipple to chew on, just propped up on my shoulder gazing around the room, drooling.

Tonight I promised bailey that we would spend the night in the new tent we bought last weekend. Hopefully Jen is going to borrow a double inflatable mattress from a friend and we’ll get into our jimmies and camp out, for Bailey the first time ever, for me, the first time since leaving Golcar many, many moons ago. With a bit of luck he’ll fall fast asleep and I can sit in a deck chair starring at the stars and sipping whiskey in my US Army Issue Parka, yeah - right! We all know that he’ll still be awake midnight, fighting with every ounce of consciousness left in him, chattering on about everything and nothing… a lot like me.

Welcome Baby Riley

22-04-2007

It's been a while since I last posted... at our house we've been a little busy, especially Jenny.

On Tuesday we were blessed with a baby boy - 7lb9oz. I'm not sure Jenny would want me to into great detail about the birth, however etched into my brain it is, just to say that it was relatively (and mercifully) quick for all involved and Mother and Baby were able to leave the hospital on the same day.

So yeah, we've been busy. I'm fortunate enough to work for a firm that gives paid paternity leave, at least for the first week, so I've been helping out here, trying to ensure the other two tiny Kimmings' don't feel left out or neglected.

Here's to another minimum three years with insufficient sleep.