Vicky has only had the iPhone for 1 WEEK – Simon has had the bottom lip out the whole time and today, we went to acquire him one – may stop the whinging 🙂 Of course it HAD to be the 32Gb 3gs – nothing else was good enough …

Out of jest however, what a cool device – they really are very good at dealing with internet based stuff – i.e. mobile web is really good, the ability to download straight from the iTunes Store is really very cool, and the integration is awesome.  Then there is the ability to actually see the SKY TV listings and set the HD box in the house to record stuff from out and about – simply mind blowing stuff !!  Enough I hear you cry Simon, you have already said you have bought one, don’t need the selling pitch anymore…

One last point 🙂 – what is very cool is that Simon and Vicky can now share a calendar which means there is no more excusing one of us (Simon again !!) claiming to not know about an upcoming event – it is all there for both to see quickly and easily.

The rain just keep coming – really heavy showers so we are definitely pleased that the conservatory is fixed properly.

Sara, Matt and the girls came round for the day today, and Elliot has been very well behaved for the whole day – only one paddy actually took place – right at the beginning of the day as well 🙂

Elliot and Jessica played really well together, with the final playing being finding out just how much fun it can be to bounce on mummy and daddy’s bed 🙁 Little monkeys

All the kids were crying at the end of the day as Matt, Sara and kids were going home – they didn’t want to go and Elliot didn’t want them to go….

We have all had a great day today.  Hoping tomorrow works out half as well 🙂

Simon is sat in the conservatory with the boys, and Elliot is looking at photos on the iPod Touch.  He came across a few photos of Simon’s old Boxster S from the year 2000.  Simon stated that that used to be Daddies car – the response was stunning:

No Daddy, that is a sexy car – it must be Grandmas……

Outrageous, no matter what Simon says, there is NO way Elliot is believing the car was Daddies.

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!