news - second and third month
Mon 29th July 2002, 5pm
Yet more photos
have appeared,
mainly covering a couple of days out in Cambridge with Caroline's
relatives visiting. She and Isabelle are now in Birmingham with
her parents for a couple of weeks, and apparently smiling at
everyone and everything - and even laughing in the bath!
Tue 23rd July 2002, 4.15pm
Another set of photos is now
on the
website. These are mainly from Clare and John's wedding,
and a few of Isabelle's first punting trip. Since then she's
been punting again, this time with Caroline's parents - and it
didn't rain then either! She's started to grow into some of the
larger clothes that we've been given (photos to follow soon...)
and she persuaded us that she did really want that pair of gap
jeans that were in the sale! Isabelle and Caroline are heading
back to Birmingham at the end of this week for a while, before
returning for her next set of injections and the checkup for a
medical study that we're involved in. She's getting some good
vowel sounds in now, and starting to find tickling games fun -
if she's in the right mood...
Tue 9th July 2002, 4.30pm
We've just got back from the Doctor's, after Isabelle's 6-8 week
check and her first set of vacinations. The checkup was fine, and
she's still on the completely average line for height (58cm) and
weight (5.23kg, 11-8).
The injections went okay; she screamed as they were being done, but
quickly calmed down again afterwards. We were warned she might have
a fever in the next day or two, so we'll wait and see how things
turn out. In general she's getting much more chatty when she's
playing, and smiling more. She's still going to bed at 2.30am,
but at least she then sleeps until 8am or so.
Fri 28th June 2002, 5pm
A new set of photos is up
here,
showing Isabelle's second month. There are some photos of
the sailing trip that Caroline and Tim went on, plus quite
a few of Isabelle at home. She's now in her new cot, and sleeping
as well in that as in anything else. She's now much harder to
please; she likes to be really played with, sung to and smiled at,
although she does really like looking at her mobile. Another trip
into Caroline's school yesterday to meet Caroline's old class was
a little hampered by both Caroline and Isabelle both being a bit
unwell - both needed quite a bit of sleep to catch up.
Tue 18th June 2002, 8pm
Just back from a walk around town and a sneaky trip to the
pub whilst Isabelle got some sleep. She's been awake most
of the day, and really over-tired, so unable to sleep. The
magic of the pushchair worked, so she's got some rest now.
She generally goes to sleep at night at around 2am, but then
sleeps for about 6 hours, a small feed, then sleeps for
another hour or so. Not too bad considered how little she
is... Then again, the health visitor came today, and she's
now a healthy 4.65kg (10-4), maintaining about 28g increase
per day, so we don't think she's still particularly little.