Ben on Christmas Day

I am not sure what Ben made of his frst Christams. Seems to me he was more interested in the Wrapping paper than his presents. I am sure it had to do with the bright colors and being able to rip it to pieces. Hey Ho thats what Christmas is all about.

No! Daddys Nose doesnt come off!

Aftere the presents we spent the rest of the day on the Beach. Very nice.

Merry Christmas

Sorry its been so long folks. I have been very busy with setting up a new business venture – making sports bras with a friend of mine, so updating this site has taken a back seat for a while.
My goodness Ben has changed so much in the last 7 weeks. He weighs about 9Kg and he cant stop bouncing! Its really funny but he has no interest in crawling at all, but he loves to stand up and just jump up and down. He has discovered solid food and is eating just about everything that is put into his mouth, including anything that he isn’t suppose to eat.

He especially likes Pizza for some reason!
He has very strong legs and is very close to walking already. I hear you say walking! Yes thats right he can walk aready holding my hands but i recon he will be walking properly in a few weeks time.
Anyway I plan to take some more pictures of him over Christmas and will put them up soon.

Hospital Again!

Poor little boy was sick again at the beginning of the week. In fact they ended up taking him into hospital for 2 nights. It turned out he had Bronchitis which isnt very nice. Not too bad, two nights in hospital plus all the medicine, food and doctors fees – about 300 pounds and just like the hotel room Sa had when he was born  As usual he bounced right back and is absolutely fine now. In fact he has just discovered how to propel him self around in his toy Ferrari and is currently tearing up and down the salon. I love it..

6 Months Today

Today Master Ben is 6 Months old. We are going to the beach later with all the children. Thats after he’s had a hair cut! This morning I did a double take as Sa was looking after both of them. It felt very strange .

A Mega Update

My goodness me a lot has happened since the last update. We are now back in Thailand, everyone is OK and we have caught up with our sleep. All the time we have been away it’s been too busy to update this site so this is going to be a mega update.
First Trip from the UK was to see Bens Third Cousin Twice removed in Brussels. He is 78 years old and we felt it was import as this might be the only time they get to meet. We went through the channel tunnel. As usual Ben slept all the way and woke up with perfect timing at Andrews Door. Even in the restaurants he was perfect as usual.

After a brief stop at home to see Aunty Lisa, her mum, Cousin Nigel and Catch our breath, it was off to Gothenburg in Sweden to See Jan and Katarina. In spite of a 3am start Ben was wide awake all the way to Stanstead airport and kept the stewardesses on their toes all the way to Gothenburg. Once there we had a lovely time again. We went out on the Lake in a rowing boat and Ben had his first ride on a Quad Bike which he enjoyed very much. Sunday we returned home tired but happy.

Next was the big one. Boston and Cape Cod. We left the folowing Wednesday and flew via Washington to Boston then drove to the Cape. Ben slept most of the way and as always woke up as we arrived. Two days shopping and a days cookie making was all the time we had time for on Cape Cod. Everywhere we went with Ben the shop assistants would take him out and look after him while we went shopping it’s was very nice and different to the UK.
The trouble started on the way home. As we left on the Sunday Moring a thought Ben had a slight temperature (it was 37.5 deg C) didn’t think too much about it and got on the flight to Washington. About 20 Minutes before we landed his temperature was 38.9. As everyone knows this is very high. The end result – another new experience for Ben, his first ambulance ride from the plane to hospital! It was my first Ambulance ride as well. It turned out he had a viral infection and a cold on top of that, which pushed his temperature up so high. After 6 Hours they let him out but we had missed our flights and had to stay in Washington the night before flying on to London. Unfortunately for me, I figure that as it was only 3 days and Ben has never been sick, so I wouldn’t bother with Medical Insurance, well that won’t happen again as I am several thousand dollars lighter but he is worth it.

3 days at home two quick visit to my last relatives and then it was back to Heathrow for the flight home. Ben was a little angel again hardly made a sound the whole flight and was very happy to see his brother at the other end.
So in the last couple of weeks Ben has been to 5 countries take 8 flights totaling about 25,000 air miles and been in the air for 40 odd hours, been to 4 different time zones as much as 11 hours different. He has been to about 15 relatives, slept in 6 different beds and had milk and food from Thailand, England and America. AND HE WAS STILL SMILING!
Most people would think all this was crazy with a 5 month old baby; but I genuinely believe he was OK and I hope it made an impression on him even at his tender age. I know he left a trail of melted hearts everywhere we went.