We have got over the lack of sleep from two nights ago (didn’t get to sleep until 6:30 am – I guess we were about due a bad night.  Anyway, more visitors have been round to see Elliot – your picture may well be in the gallery – take a look?

The pram is beginning to come together now, with the hood being cleaned by Simon to bring it back to its’ Navy Blue colour and to get rid of the smell of damp that still exists within the main carriage.  With a bit of luck (and plenty of sunshine) Elliot may be taking a ride in it within a fortnight.

Elliot had his first proper sick today, and the great news is that it was not on Simon – straight over Vicky instead – and yes, a shower was required to clean Vicky up – Elliot – just needed a new top on – good skills

Elliot’s first weigh in today and he came in at 9lbs flat.  So he has lost just 5oz from his birth weight and is going for broke.

We collected the Wilson pram today and once the hood has been cleaned up properly and some bedding / blankets purchased, we will be in business.

If we said 8 hours sleep, would you believe us? We had tea at Elliot’s Grandma’s last night and he created big time – he had two bottles of 3.5 oz within 2 hours of each other as well as boobie scoobies, and yet still felt it was fair to scream for a couple of hours.

In fairness we had begun to think that the little guy was constipated and that this was the problem in question.  Simon’s friends at work, who’s little boy Fabrizio has also been having both breast milk and the SMA Gold formula, got significant bouts of constipation from the SMA Gold.  Once he changed to alternative formula, the daily motions returned :-).

This was not the problem, a few little trumps and hey hey, we had nutella deployment in his shorts – Vicky was laughing uncontrollably until it was pointed out that it was her turn to change the nappy……..

Once a further feed was delivered, and 1 hour of whinging, we had a whole 8 continuous hours of sleep.  Truly amazing, and yes we are waiting for the opposite to occur – we know that it is overdue now.

Today was fun as we went to Meadow Hall in Sheffield for a quick shop and lunch out (a first on two counts for us – i.e. venturing out shopping properly AND lunch out to boot), so today Elliot had his first meal in Pizza Express.  No dramas and I’m sure that he was unaware of the feed let alone the location – he slept the whole day, or so it seemed.

Further great news – Simon’s pram is complete and we are going to collect it tomorrow night so the photos will hopefully be posted up here in a day or two.  We are also awaiting the photos of Simon in said pram from 32 years ago – that will making interesting reading now doubt.

Until then…….

First road trip today – granted was only to Sainsbury’s and to Staples for more photo printer paper and ink, but nonetheless was a road trip.

Unsurprisingly the little guy fell asleep before we had made it far beyond the entrance to the estate and seemed to fall into a deep coma type sleep.  To the point that we actually had to wake him a couple of hours later for his next feed.

Simon has finally figured out how to get the car seat in and secured in under 10 minutes and similar for the removal 🙂

We have now begun a little online visitors book with photos of all of his visitors.

Finally and most importantly, we are worried right now that he has slept for a lot of the daylight today, will we sleep tonight ???????

Elliot met his great grandparents yesterday afternoon, along with his grandma and Aunty Jenny again.  He slept for 4 solid hours during the day so great grandparents didn’t actually get to see him with his eyes open unfortunately.

I think is it safe to say that all were made up with the little guy.

Simon dealt with his first “up the back” type dirty nappy yesterday, and given he thought it would be a quick wet nappy he had no change mat ready and was showing off changing the nappy over his knee.  Guess what Simon won’t be doing again (no more showing off without a change mat) ………

We struggled with him again last evening with regards to settling him down, and think it may be down to his not having full meals, but snacking instead, and hence never really filling his tummy.  I guess this is the steep learning curve that all new parents must clamber up pretty darned quickly.

As a final note Vicky woke Elliot this morning by changing his nappy as she was worried that something was wrong with the little guy – he had been asleep since just past 1am – it was 8:10am !!!! 7 hours kip – awesome.

Looking forward to the next new day…..