I just wanted to drop by & wish everyone a very merry christmas.
Jack is still awake & I'm going to read him 'the night before christmas' shortly before he goes to bed. This christmas is going to be the best ever.
Wherever you are & whatever you are doing over this holiday period I wish all the very best to you & your loved ones.
Good evening peoples, yes I know i haven't posted for a while but what are ya gonna do about it!
Since my last entry I have returned to work after having nearly 3 weeks off with my bad throat & work is still the same old crap with the same old crappy managers who have no idea how to actually do our job so they bumble along in their cosy little offices making changes to our jobs that have only 1 outcome....they have now pi**ed off most of the staff so we are now looking for other jobs. I would say if we all go they will realise the error of their ways but I really don't think they will, they appear far too stupid.
Jack has got a lousy cold at the moment with a bad chesty cough so we have 2 lots of medicine to try & get him to take several times a day. I'm asthmatic & sorry to say it seems that Jack has inherited a weak respiratory system (sorry son!). Poor little jack spends most of the day screaming & crying because he has no way to express how he's feeling. Those of you with kids will know it also means most of our clothes are covered in baby snot, oh the joys of parenting!!
Over the last few weeks Jack has taken the odd step here & there but yesterday he walked across our living room unaided. We have bought him a walker for christmas but it converts to a bike so it won't be completely useless come christmas day. He still stumbles & falls on his butt a lot but he can walk quite well, I am so proud of him, a few weeks ago my mum told me if he was walking within 6 weeks he would have beaten me so already my son is better than his old man.
We went to see my mum a couple of weeks ago, while we were there woolworths had a photographer in doing childrens photo's so we arranged for my sister to leave her 2 boys with their grandparents so we could get Jack together with his cousins for a nice photo. We're going to get the picture framed for my mum, I have tried scanning it so we can have a copy & also email it to my sister but the picture is too big for my scanner so I need to scan it in 2 halfs when I get chance & photoshop it. My sister has bought my mum a session with a photographer and she has decided she wants to have her picture taken with her 3 grandsons so after christmas they are all coming over to coventry for the photo session, can't wait. Its so nice to have all of us together but we rarely get the chance these days.
Not a lot else has happened ( my son walks & i make it sound like nothing much is happening here...what an idiot), Nic got to meet Gordon Ramsay at waterstones this week, I have bought her his latest book for christmas but i couldn't get time off work so she took it to get signed. Nic drools every time she see's him on tv but i can cope with that, if Nigella Lawson came to do a book signing in coventry i would DEFINITELY be phoning in sick so I could go. Apparently there was a massive queue so they ended up giving out tickets so not everyone got in to see him, we were hoping to be able to get a picture of Jack & Gordon but as it was so bloody cold Nic's dad took Jack home, still at least he has met Bart Simpson!!!
I hav added mostly new photo's of Jack but have also included a picture from back in june, in the june picture he is sat on the same tigger he is sitting on by the christmas tree. Thought you might like to see just how much he has changed in 6 months.
If I don't manage to update my journal before christmas I hope you all have a fantastic time... VampJack x
