Sleepless in Hong Kong

Poor little fella (and poor mummy by association) didn't sleep so well last night. Perhaps the day out followed by lunch in Stanley was a big much for him. After his 6am feed (preceded by midnight, 2am and 3am feeds), his mummy practically threw him at me as she went back to bed... He seems ok now, but we suspect he's still quite tired, and needs a really long conk out to get back to normal.  Took some more photos of him this morning, but it's becoming more and more evident that my 50mm f1.4 lens needs calibration - the focus is way out.  Stupid Canon.

Happy Valentine's Day George!

Today is: - George's first Valentine's Day

- Patrick and Barbara's anniversary (not that they remembered...!)

- Matt and Kat's wedding day (which sadly, we could not make). Have a great day guys!

To celebrate his first Valentine's Day, George is going out for a walk with his mate Sam and Sam's mum Carolin (weather permitting). Failing that, he's going to see if Aunty Carolin wants to come over for a romantic Valentine's dinner with mummy and daddy (Sam's dad Cam is currently in Dubai).

George obliged and posed for a few Valentine's Day special edition photos this morning:

The week is over at last...

Again - nothing too exciting to report.  Little guy was apparently a good little man today, and his mummy had a pretty sweet day. In a lovely end to the working week, George kindly came down and met me at work, and we walked home together. Tomorrow we'll hopefully be going for a walk out to Stanley (if the weather holds up), and we have a few visitors due over the weekend too. I need to go and clean the kitchen now, so that means it's photo time:

The narrow photo window

spacespacespace Now that I'm back at work, it's actually quite tough to get decent photos of the little fella. In the morning I only really see him for an hour or so while I'm getting ready - and that's when Rachel is having a shower and getting her breakfast (and when that's not happening, I'm in the shower, having breakfast or getting ready for work). I get home around 6:30pm, which is bath time - and then he has a bit of dinner (in his very quiet room) and sleeps. So, during the week I don't get too much of a chance to hang out with the little chap, let alone take photos of him. Still, we usually get a bit of daddy cuddle time before bath time, and it really doesn't matter whether I get 5 minutes with him or 50 minutes with him - it's all good.

Tonight he was a bit grizzly - Rachel thinks that he slept and settled a bit early today and as a result was fairly reluctant to go down after his bath and dinner.  Still - he's asleep and we suspect he'll be out for quite a while.  He had a big day - he went into town today and met Aunty Sue and Aunty Helen at the China Tee Club (both of whom I am assured are most impressed with him!)

A few photos that I snuck in this morning:

A few pictures from the phone

spcaespace Just a few shots from my phone this morning, taken while I was watching the wee fella.  Clearly Poppycat was watching him too...

Chair time | Sheepskin time

This is the look of a kid who has spent the last 15 minutes farting and pooping and doing trumpet and trombone impersonations with his butt

A little bit of cute with your cornflakes?

Little George had a pretty good night last night - a four hour sleep stint from 7:30pm to 11:30pm and then another 4 hour stint from midnight to 4am.  Sleep from 6ish was sporadic, but as I type this the little fella is snoozing away in his room. Have to run and get the dishes done before I head to work, but here is a little bit of cuteness that I caught this morning.  I have a B&W version of the colour one, but I figure I do enough B&W so you get the colour version (B&W is easier to process when photos are taken in low light, which is why they're usually B&W)

Not a lot to say...

... since the little fella went to bed about an hour after I got home tonight. He's still asleep and I think we might have to wake him and feed him again.  I'll leave that call to Rachel. I did manage to take a few photos of him today - the first was taken as I left to go to work and he was sleeping (took it on my phone, sorry), and the second is one I took of Rachel and the little one as he slept when I got home from work.  He looked so damn cute in his little stripes...

It was almost an uneventful day until...

...George erupted a torrent of brown sludge on Mummy's hand about half an hour ago  :)  The best thing was that I had offered to change him tonight and Rachel said not to worry, that she'd do it.  About 5 minutes later I heard her yelling for me, and went into George's room to see (and hear) his little bottom in full swing.  There was crap flying out of him (all over Rachel's hand) and his little butt trumpet was playing quite a violent symphony.  That's my boy. A few photos from tonight and one in colour to show off one of the onesies that Aunty Katy and Uncle Sam sent him.