First Real Conversation

Jamie had a very busy bank holiday weekend. He saw his daddy play in his band for the very first time. It was also mummy's first time she had seen daddy play with the new band. See: http://thewarbirds.co.uk/ After the band had finished playing at Alford Festival, Nanna took Jamie and mummy to see Auntie Julie who lives nearby.

When Jamie saw daddy later on that evening, daddy was able to find out that Jamie had met Auntie Julie and he had fed a horse that lived at the back of her garden. Without any help from mummy, Jamie told daddy that the horse dropped the carrot on the floor and so didn't get to eat it.

It is amazing how much Jamie has developed in the last few months. And not only his talking but he also seems to have shot up in size (and weight).

"Tea Ready"

Since we bought Jamie the little kitchen last week, this has been something that we hear quite often. He also has a tea set with cups and a teapot, and a cake that cuts into slices. He seems to constantly want to play in his 'kitchen' or the one at Nursery. And luckily most things are ready in about "10 minutes".

Jamie had a fantastic weekend last week with his cousin Lucy. Lots of chattering and playing and now whenever the phone rings, Jamie asks if it is "Lucy." There was lots of dancing, running around and playing cooking.

We met Nicola and Will at Hartsholme Park Family Fun Day. Jamie and Will loved the bouncy castle and the 'hook a duck' game and Lucy had her face painted. Then we all went to see Nanna Grace and played with the bean bags and bubbles in her garden.

It really is lovely when Lucy comes for the weekend - with her mum and dad obviously - and he loves playing with Will and other friends. It makes me wonder whether Jamie really should be an only child....

First Trip to A&E

I suppose it had to happen sooner or later. Sunday afternoon we went to see cousin Noah and unfortunately while me and daddy were in the front room with my brother, Jamie fell off something. Nanna had been watching him but didn't really know what happened either. All we could see was that Jamie's lip was bleeding heavily from where his teeth (we assume) had cut into his lip. I am afraid mummy was a bit of a wet fish as she didn't like all that blood, but Auntie Hannah helped mop up the blood!!

Daddy decided straight away to take him up to the hospital as he thought the cut was quite deep. Once at A&E we were seen quite quickly. The nurse gave Jamie some Neurophen and said that they don't stitch cuts but suggested we waited to see a Doctor. Unfortunately this, she estimated, would be between one and two hours..... As it was past Jamie's bed time and he seemed quite happy in himself, we decided to take him home. We did have him in bed with us all night but after his milk he just wanted to have a cuddle and go to sleep - as we all did!

Monday morning, daddy took him to the Doctors just to be sure. They rang A&E who also told them that they don't stitch children of Jamie's age. They said just to keep an eye on its progress and to take him back if it looks as if it isn't healing. Today he just looks like a boxer but he does say its "Better!".

As he was such a brave boy, daddy treated Jamie to a Peppa Pig Kitchen Set and he loves it!!

Talk To Your Baby Pledge

Another thing that arrived while we were on holiday was a note from the Post Office saying they had a parcel that was too large to fit through the letterbox. I had no idea what it was but when it arrived I was glad I had sent Granddad to go and get it!! It was, and is, a fantastic fun to learn, lift the flaps book - Maisy's Year- that Jamie loves!! (www.maisyfun.com)

Checking my emails I found one that said:
Thank you so much for your wonderful pledge that you made on www.talktoyourbaby.org.uk/

We hope it has gone well and that you have enjoyed the extra communication time with your baby. We are very pleased to be able to let you know that you made one of the winning pledges and have won a baby book. You should receive this in about a month.

We are in the process of developing an exciting new site, www.wordsforlife.org.uk/ and look forward to telling you more about it as work progresses. In the meantime, we want Talk To Your Baby to be as helpful to you as possible so let us know if you would like any specific content featured or discussed.

I am afraid I can't remember my pledge. I think it was something along the lines of reading to and talking to Jamie more - and it must have worked as he is galloping along with his speech at the moment!