My Birthday

Hi there, Well now I am a very proud 1 year old! I am no longer a baby and I am certainly a toddler as I have been toddling along for many weeks now. It is so much fun. Thank you to everyone who came to my birthday party and thanks for all the great presents - I love them all. See you soon, Coinneach

First Steps???

Coinneach took 3 steps all on his own last night! Dont know if this counts as his first steps. He has refused to repeate this event since! He has taken the odd step over the last couple of days but we will have to wait and see how long it takes the lazy bones to actually start waking!!

Update

Hi, Wanted to post and update you all on our wee man. He is well on his way to walking and can move from one piece of furniture to another by letting go and taking a step or so to grab onto the next bit. He even took a few brave steps towards daddy last night but fell into a crumpled heap on the floor! He can say ta but his new games is to hold out a toy to you, wait till you say ta, snatch it back, say ta and giggle like mad! He still enjoys clapping his hands, waving bye bye and paying peek-a-boo which he has been doing for a few months but no new games apart from those. We will write again soon, Sarah xxxxx

I can stand!

Dear all, Just popped in to show you all that I can stand on my own. I have been able to do it for quite a few weeks now but I wouldn’t let mummy and daddy get a photo of me doing it until now. Hehe! I will be 10 months old tomorrow, mummy and daddy think im getting big far too fast but I can’t wait to be like my big brother and run around. Well, im off to bed so I’ll talk to you all again soon. Good night, Coinneach xxx Ps sorry about the big black leaf but I had to cover my dignity!

Happy Birthday, Tiernan!

Hello all, Our wee lad has just turned 6 years old! He had lots and lots of friends round to his house and they all played on the bouncy castle. Happy birthday, Tiernan! Cheerio, Graeme & Sarah

Tiernan's stay in hospital

Hello, Tiernan has just spent the last few days in A&E after a prolonged bout of sickness. It all started over a week ago when Tiernan was sick towards the later part of the day. This continued for several days and, naturally, we shipped him off to A&E for a quick diagnosis. Everyone at the hospital - junior and senior doctors - was all completely stumped as to the cause. It was eventually diagnosed as abdominal migraine after 2 days in hospital. Tiernan really, really enjoyed it and did not want to leave; strange, after having needles inserted into his hand, being poked and prodded by an army of doctors and vomiting into little bowler hats. He is definitely a brave little boy! :-) He is doing well now and there have been no relapses (fingers crossed) Bye, Graeme & Sarah

Im Still Around!

Hi all, Was looking at the blog and thought there was a lack of pictures that included me (I never like having my picture taken and this may be why!) I have decided to include one here just incase you think I have actually disappeared and Graeme is now on his own with the boys! As you can see Coinneach is still loving yummy mummy milk. He is really enjoying the fact he can crawl really fast, stand up and move around using the furniture. He is very proud when he lets go and can stand unaided for a few seconds and has mastered landing on his bottom to minimise impact! Not much new to report so ill be off, Sarah x

Tiernan

T Tiernan is enjoying being a big primary 2 and having loads of fun back at school. We cannot believe that he will be 6 years old in only a few weeks time! Will be posting party pictures soon. S and G

Coinneach standing

The little devil started standing up at the end of our holiday. Here he is enjoying the heady heights of Bristol. He is now cruising around like the little monkey that he is. Nothing is safe in our house any more! Bye, Graeme, Sarah, Tiernan & Coinneach

Summer Holiday #5

"Mummy didn't like the boat. She felt sick all the time. It was great and I sucked the seat lots!"

Summer Holiday #4

Awwwwww

Summer Holiday #3

Everyone enjoying the camp-side pub! One Orange-Geena, Tiernan? ;-)

Summer Holiday #2

Coinenach really enjoyed the bike ride. He just stared at the wheels constantly.

Summer Holiday #1

Here is Coinneach enjoying the delights of the plastic high chair supplied by Eurocamp. Oooooooooo!

Troublesome tooth finally through

Hello everyone, Quick update on the tooth situation: it's arrived! We noticed this morning that one of Coinneach's teeth has finally popped through his gum. We're all glad about that because we think it was hurting him lots. Will post a picture soon. It's very hard to photograph the inside of a baby's mouth :-)

Little crawler!

Hello everyone, Coinenach has started crawling. The little devil is so efficient already he can crawl from one end of the dining room to the other. Sarah and Tiernan got a fright the other day when they couldn't find Coinneach. Unbeknownst to them he had crawled underneath the dining room table and was hiding! Clever little fellow. He's already mastered hide-and-seek at 6 1/2 months. Here are a couple of pics of the master crawler in action...

Playing with my friend

Here I am with my friend Kory. Mummy was looking after him for Auntie Julie but after we went for a walk in the sunshine he just konked out and left me to play on my own. Coinneach xx

Weening

Hello everyone, It was about time we introduced the wee man to the delights of food. So we did. His first ever dinner was some utterly disgusting baby rice thatc losely resembled wallpaper paste and some banana. All went well apart from the numerous choking incidents that resulted in Sarah and myself vigoursly slapping Coinneach on the back. For some strange reason that seemed to upset him. Coinneach has decided that he does not like this mushy stuff we keep trying to give him and has gone straight onto 'real' food he can pick up and eat himself: fish, chicken, pork, potato, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, pear, banana, melon, mango, bread, rice...you name it he'll eat it (only not mushed up!)

6 months old!

My goodness, Coineach has been alive for an entire 6 months now. So to celebrate we shipped everyone in the car and headed up to Haddo House on a scorcher of a day. We all enjoyed Coinneach's delicious organic apple birthday cake. Yum.

My new toys

Mummy and daddy bought me new toys to play with. I'm glad they did because I'm sure sick of playing with stupid teddy bears and soft mice. They make me smile :-)

Playtime in the back garden

This grass is really cumfy, but the sun is shining in my eyes. I often fall over and eat the grass. It tastes yuk! I'd much rather have a rice cake or pirce of banana.

"Ooooh...you look funny!"

Two brothers enjoying some quality time together

Coinneach enjoying a bath in his new seat

Since Coinneach is now capable of sitting on his own unaided, we decide to buy a bath seat. These things are cool because our arms were dying after holding him for 10 minutes in the bath. He really loves the seat and enjoys having staring contents with his brother. I think we took him by surprise when this picture was taken :-) Graeme, Sarah, Tiernan & Coinneach

Coinneach sitting up

Here are a couple of pictures of Coinneach sitting up. He's been sitting up for the past week and a half, but we never got round to taking pictures of him!

I was quite amazed at how quickly he started sitting up. Not so long ago he was totally disinterested in sitting and then all of a sudden he just started doing it.

He didn't managed to break his brothers record unfortunately. Tiernan was sitting up 3 weeks ago. He must have inherited my laziness :-)

Karen - this is the first time he has worn his New Zealand outfit! It looks great.

Cheerio, Graeme, Sarah, Tiernan and Coinneach

Snoozing at the wedding of Ian and Lorna This was a few weeks ago but as we havent posted anything for a while....

And another... Coinneach and Tiernan watching TV together, very alike aren't they!?

Another picture of the boys

He aint heavy...he's my brother Hello again As requested a picture of both boys. I will post a few more in a bit. Coinneach can now shuffle comando style on his tummy, dont think it will be long till he is crawling around! Anyway, Coinneach is hungry so I'm off! Bye bye, Sarah

Coinneach Giggling

Coinneach loves a good giggle as this video will testify! We thought you might like to see one of Coinneach's daily giggle sessions - he loves when you pretend to eat him! Strange child he is - dont know where he gets it from (daddy????). Hope you enjoy the movie! Sarah

"Hello Daddy" Hello to all, this is my first time posting here! I took this picture the other day when Coinneach was helping me speak to daddy over the internet. However we had to take a break as Coinneach had sore gums and needed to bite on my finger! Anyway, im off now - I just wanted to get my two pence worth in! Sarah

Surprise!

Awwwwwww

Sarah took this picture a while back. I absolutely love this picture because it looks so arty! I bet Sarah would have to admit that is was totally accidental though :-) He's the cutest baby ever (of course I would say that...)

Coinneach sucking his thumb

Coinneach sucking his thumb. Awwww... This picture was actually taken ages ago (can't remember the exact date however). He actually started sucking his thumb one minute after he appeared in this world. I remember him snuggled into my arms just minutes after he was born quite contentedly sucking his tiny thumb. Then he started crying. He was probably wondering what that hairy beast was holding him :-)

Coinneach has been a very happy bunny the last few days. He smiles at alomost anything!