Sam is surprised to announce that he now weighs in at a hefty 6.88 kg (15 lb 2 oz)! My – all that solid food must be doing a good job 🙂
You can see him in this photo modelling his new sun hat while out enjoying the sunshine in our local park. He was trying to reach the camera while I was taking this photo which is why he has a look of annoyed concentration on his face.
Yesterday afternoon Sam and I decided to test out his new sun hat at the local park where we decided to stop for half an hour and enjoy the lovely sunshine. We chose to sit near the building that used to be a library – but sadly is now empty. After spending some time looking at the lovely old building and wishing that it still contained a library we decided to head back home after doing a circuit of the park.
On our way back I noticed a sign to a ‘public library’ which lead us to where this old library must have been rehomed! Very excitedly we went in to have a good look around and spent a little time admiring the nice spacious layout. We sadly had to go home for Sam’s feed but decided to make a return visit this morning for their Tuesday ‘Rhyme time’.
Well – the Rhyme time was good fun and very popular, lot’s and lot’s of other small children came along and Sam had a good look at them all crawling around or walking about (I hope he is taking good notice!). Some of the songs I already knew but most of them I’ll have to learn, though I think if we make this a regular weekly event that won’t be too hard 🙂 I’m very happy to have found our local library at last and I’m looking forward to the day when Sam gets as excited about visiting it as I do.
For the last couple of days we have been enjoying the company of Rich’s parents who made the trip down south to come and visit Sam (and us!) this weekend. Having guests round is always great as it gives me a great excuse to ‘forget’ my diet for a few days while I indulge on the tasty food we have when we have guests.
Rich’s parents also came with gifts – most of which were for Sam but also included a friend’s secondhand sewing machine for me to learn to use… I’m very very excited about this and I can’t wait to get started. Hopefully I’ll be able to start making a few items of clothing for Sam if I get the hang of it quickly enough – he’s growing so quick at the moment that I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to keep up!
We spent Friday evening, Saturday and Sunday morning with Rich’s parents but they sadly had to return to Northland this morning as they have jobs to get back to. Thanks so much for coming all the way down to visit us – we loved seeing you 🙂
After Rich’s parents had left we had a few hours to sort ourselves out before dashing off to meet up with a group of our friends from work in a nearby park before heading off for a meal out together. This was Sam’s first ever time at a restaurant with us and he was started out well by napping while we ate our main course, however he woke up before we ordered dessert and needed a little entertaining while we tried to get some pudding into ourselves. Now we’ve started feeding Sam mashed up food I think he fancies the food on our plates too!
All in all a great weekend was had by the Fuzzy household, though now we are all ready for bed. zzzzzz
Today Sam and I made the journey over to Cheam to visit Joh and Claire. Sam and I arrived a little early so that Sam could have a quick bite to eat before we all went off to have a wander around Nonsuch park.
Foolishly I forgot to take any photos from our trip out so I can’t show you just how lovely the park is, the picture on the left is of Nonsuch manor which is very similar to the style of the old manor house where Rich and I work.
We bought some drinks and cake from the little cafe in the manor and ate them outside while admiring the scenery. After fortifying ourselves we then went for a good walk round the park which as well as being lovely is also huge. Before we knew it it was time to dash off to catch our train back, Joh very kindly walked us back and even though she is 9 months pregnant it was me that was out of breath when we got there!
Joh is due to be having her little one very soon now and I’m really looking forward to being able to visit her in such lovely surroundings while she is on her maternity leave.
Easter seems to have crept in early this year, it came as a real surprise to me when I looked in my diary and noticed that it was only a couple of weeks away. Thanks to everyone who sent the Fuzzy household Easter cards and chocolate – we really appreciated you all thinking of us and can’t wait to start munching our way through our stash 🙂
As an added Easter treat we had a visit from my parents who were very happy to see Sam again. Sam as always enjoyed having guests and was as talkative as ever – I keep thinking he is going to start talking soon…
My parents also came with Easter presents, a lovely looking egg for Rich & me and some very cute Easter decorations for Sam.
After we had all had a few cups of tea and Sam had been cuddled by his Grand parents it was pretty much time for dinner – roast beef with all the trimmings! Yummmm! Sam was good enough to sit and watch us eat our food before deciding that he needed to go and have a nap. So while he was napping we all tucked into some of Rich’s delicious chocolate brownies with ice cream and then declared ourselves full to the brim.
We hope you’ve all had a great Easter too and that you also got pleanty of chocolately goodness.
Today Sam and I made the journey into work as I needed to speak to my manager about what flexible working options were available to me if I decided to come back to work at the end of my maternity leave. If I did return to work it would have to be on very different terms as I would only do it if I could work from home part time. So my manager will try to find out if anything can be arranged to make this possible – but I won’t know for sure for a good while.
Sam was very well behaved and charmed everyone that he met – especially all the ladies 🙂 He was also very good for my meeting and occasionally piped up with a comment that he felt needed making.
After catching up with my work colleagues we then went in search of Rich who seemed to think that Sam may make a pretty good boss… hence the photo on the left of Sam taking up position at Rich’s manager’s desk. Rich changed his mind about this though as he didn’t fancy spending all his time trying to stop Sam falling off the office chair.
Sam is mildly pleased to announce that his new weight has just been measured and he now totals a moderate 6.35 kg (13 lb 15 oz) – so very close to his first stone!
After being weighed the health care lady decided to prescribe some creams for Sam’s dry skin and also gave me a lot of advice on what to do to help his cradle cap – hopefully it clears up quickly ‘coz the new cream I have to put on Sam 3 times a day makes him very, very slippery!
Ruth also came a visited us today. Sam was very happy to make her aquaintance and was all smiles and talking. Ruth was great with Sam, she even gave him his lunch and help me change his nappy! Thanks for visiting Ruth and thanks also for the lovely ducks I will Sam will be sure to play with them lots in the bath.
The photo of Sam on the left is of him having a sneaky look through one of Rich’s engineer magazines…!
I’m very sad to announce that Fidget has finally scampered off to a better place.
She had been ill for about 3 months after catching an ear infection that later spread to her brain. Over these months she got increasingly frail and recently seemed to stop looking after herself altogether. Rich and I were starting to think that we would have to take her to the vet for what would most likely be her final visit but before we could do that she passed away at home.
We are both very glad to have had little Fidget in our lives and will always think of her fondly. She was such a lovely and gentle hamster who was always curious and very, very daft. Thanks for the last two years Fidget – I hope that you enjoyed spending them with us as much as we enjoyed having you around.
Rich has put up some footage of Fidget from when we were living in our old flat – go and have a look see at what a daft hamster she was.
Sadly I have to announce that today Fidget came to the end of her two year life. She hasn’t been herself since an ear infection spread to her brain a couple of months ago. We don’t think she was suffering a great deal of pain as she wasn’t squeaking. I’ve found this footage of Fidget as we’ll remember her – a very inquisitive little hamster.
Today Sam had his first taste of ‘solid’ food. You can see him here trying out a bit of baby rice and from his expression you can tell he really doesn’t know what to make of it.
We managed to hold out on starting weaning him until now, though it has been tricky as he seemed to be getting increasingly hungry and fascinated when watching Rich and I eat our meals. What finally gave us the push to start the process was seeing Sam imitate our chewing – very, very funny 🙂
The baby rice mostly ended up all over Sam’s nice bib, but hopefully he gets the hang of swallowing soon. Then I’m going to have to get myself busy in the kitchen making up pureed baby food – any ideas of what I should try?