Vicky upgraded her mobile phone for one of the snazzy new white 32Gb Apple iPhone 3Gs devices on Saturday.

Turns out that the device needs connecting up to Apple iTunes on a suitably broadband connected MAC or Windows PC.  Not a huge problem, we have both of those in the household but we use the MAC Mini for the iTunes stuff for the other ipods, so we chose to go for the obvious choice – the MAC.  Tried for about 2 hours on Saturday – no joy – just got some none descriptive error message stating that a “generic” error had occurred and to try later.

Simon called o2 (service provider in the UK) to find out how to activate the phone given that it was clearly not having any of it online.  The response was amazing – that is an error that we see quite frequently sir, and there is nothing we can do about it – just keep trying…. Amazing customer service…

Simon tried to activate it again on Sunday morning, and then on Sunday evening when we returned from Bridlington.  All times no access.

So, Simon read something about it maybe being iTunes could not access verisign to authenticate (a google search produced this) and that the ISP may be blacklisting the access – so he tried connecting up the broadband via 3g – again, no dice.

The final test was to install iTunes onto a Microsoft Windows PC and connect the iPhone that way – worked FIRST TIME !!!!

So, would you believe that the iPhone would NOT work with an Apple computer BUT would work with the arch rival Operating System ???!!!!????

Stunned does not quite capture how Simon feels

Vicky is now learning about how to use the device – Simon is pretty jealous 🙁

Vicky, Simon, Elliot and Oliver were overjoyed to be attending Cayton Joshua’s baptism in Flamborough today.  Not only that, we (Vicky and Simon) were really honoured to have been asked to step up as god-parents to the little guy.  The weather was fabulous, the church (St Oswalds in Flamborough) was a fabulous place with a really strong family feel to it.

It is amazing to think that Cayton is already 8 months old – , that said, he is really growing fast 🙂 crawling for the first time only on Saturday – watch out guys, we  he will be checking out all aspects of the house VERY soon…

How times change – we recall (Vicky and Simon) visiting Paula and Richard just 7 months ago where Cayton was just beginning to test out his parents 🙂 and we were trying to help advise from our experiences with Elliot.  It has been really great over the last month or so, where the roles have been reversed and we have been the receivers of the helpful advice where Oliver is concerned..

Elliot has been a model child today, behaving himself impeccably – something that we were REALLY worried about before the event…. He then had a great time at the reception afterwards and really burned some energy running around afterwards.

Oliver unloaded most of a bottle of milk on daddy just before we set off for home – that will teach daddy right for trying to force feed the boy 🙂  Pillock!

What a week – we thought we were going to potty train the eldest – that did not go quite as well as we would have liked.  Elliot was the beast from an unknown place last week – he was almost unbearable at times.  Mummy was actually ready to come home on TUESDAY – just 4 days in 🙁

We ended up canning the potty training in the end 🙁 (Daddy is convinced Elliot was waiting until he got clean underpants on, and THEN he was weeing in them !!!)

We will revisit in a couple of weeks was we are all less traumatised by the whole experience 🙂

Oliver has gone from strength to strength during the week, in that he is sleeping for an average of 6 hours, then feed, then sleep for a further four at night time :-).  He is now taking 6 oz milk at a sitting although the winding is still something he is not hugely keen on.

During the week, we did the following (amongst other things but these were the main events):

•  Visit Ducky’s Park Farm in South Lakes (www.duckysparkfarm.co.uk) – was very cool although Elliot was more interested in playing that seeing and feeing animals 🙁

•  Shopping in Kendal, Bowness, Windermere and Ambleside

•  Playing on the beach at Morecambe – the town is really deserted and in a crap state – the beach was good though and Elly loved it

•  Feed the ducks at White Cross Bay a few times 🙂

•  Bought the BEST Gingerbread ever tasted from Sarah Nelson’s shop – Grasmere Gingerbread – simply awesome gingerbread – if you are passing by – stop and buy some – you will not regret it 🙂

Wow it has been very hot this last few days – 29+ degrees Celsius pretty much every day this week so far.

Oliver’s operation scars are healing really nicely.  He is now demanding 5 fluid ounces of scoobies on a pretty regular basis – unfortunately this included last night every other hour, on the hour 🙁 No sleep for mummy last night 🙁 At least next week we are all on holiday so daddy can step up to the plate and offer up some sleep 🙂

Got some pictures to share….. Check out this little dude..

What about this one…..

Now, here is a picture of a small boy less than 6 days following a pretty significant operation – do you think he looks in any pain?

Life is just GREAT!!!

Finally, we have a picture of Elliot playing out today in the garden

How grown up does he look then? Cheeky little monkey 🙂