Julie's Boggle

Old and new…

Our lovely little guy will be 12 weeks old tomorrow. Jonathan now weighs approximately 5kg and is in the process of popping out of the smallest of his 0 – 3 month babygrows. (As an indication of how fickle babygrow sizes are, he’s still fitting into a set of three marked 0 – 1 month!)
It’s [...]

Having carefully ticked the box marked “No substitutes” before checking out at the end of my ASDA online shopping experience, this was what happened at the time of delivery:
Three items were not available.
1. Tin of custard powder
Substituted with: Packet of instant (just add water) custard.
Reaction: Rejected. Ick! Whoever chose this clearly [...]

The shortage of blog posts lately has not been due to either lack of desire or lack of subject matter, but rather a severe lack of “keyboard time”. There’s a lot I can do on the internet while feeding Jon, but typing is one that is particularly tricky — he does not appreciate my [...]

There’s no doubt about it — our boy is definitely getting bigger… From the weight measurements in the clinic, to the outgrowing of the “Newborn” sized babygrows, Jonathan is slowly but steadily increasing.
I’ve already had to take him for his 6 — 8 week growth check (all a-okay), and his 2 month vaccinations (poor [...]

Last night our gorgeous little chap got all the way through the night (23h00 to 06h30) for the second time! Ok, the previous time was more than a week ago, but we’re taking it as a good sign of things to come.
And what a pleasure, nearly 7.5 hours of uninterrupted sleep. Bliss! [...]