18 weeks...

The pregnancy is progressing fast! I am 18 weeks already. I have just in the last few days developed a little bump, at last! I wore this skirt to have the picture taken as it is a maternity one and makes my bump look bigger. Makes me feel nice and pregnant! Watch this space for expansion form now on.... Sarah

Its Chrrrriiiisssttttmmaaaaas.........

Happy Christmas to you all out there! We have had a wonderful day today. We had all the family round: Joan, Ian, Ian Jr, Linda, Michelle, Sharon, Lynchie, Travis, David, Me, Graeme, Tiernan and Coinneach!! I cooked christmas lunch to the best of my abilities and I am told it was not too bad! After lunch there was much present opening and many happy little faces. Including mine, as I got just what I wanted, all 10 series of Friends and lots and lots of book - yeah! The boys got so many presents I cant tell you here. Anyway, must be off. Oh yes and Happy Birthday me!!! Sarah xx

16 weeks...

Hi all, Im 16 weeks pregnant now. No real bump to speak of but thought I'd post a picture to update you all!

Coinneach is 2

Well our baby is two years old today! He is such a big boy now. He loves 'Spong Bob Square Pants', 'Power Rangers' and all manner of things that he should'ne be interested in for a few years. Today we had a party of sorts, Jack and Martha came round to play, there were balloons and pass the parcel, as well as cake! For his birthday he mostly got brio trains and more track for his collection, which is now very large but he loves it. He loves building up the track and then pushing the trains round and round! Happy Birthday Coinneach Mummy and Daddy xx

Crazy Train

Here's a little competition for you. The first person to spot Tiernan and I on the crazy train wins a whole British penny. Come on. You've all got time to waste!

The raspberry and You Tube

Note: I've made the video public so you don't have to become a You Tube member It has been quite a while since I posted my last video. I have now rectified that problem by posting a new video of Coinenach and Tiernan on You Tube. I think I have been dupped into using all of Goggle's technology. They will one day rule the world with an iron fist.

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Announcing the impending birth of "Prawn"

For those of you who don't already know (why don't you?), Sarah and I are expecting another wee devil on 5th June 2007. It has been affectionality name "Prawn" for the moment. Here is the first of many "bump" pictures. This is week 14. Thanks, Sarah & Graeme

New online ablum of Florida pictures

Hello everyone. Sarah and I have uploaded a selection of our Florida pictures to http://picasaweb.google.com/graeme.humphrey/Disneyland. It is currently a private album (feel a bit funny having personal pictures available to any weirdo on the Internet). If Sarah hasn't already invited you, just send us an email plus a £100 PayPal payment and we'll gladly grant you access. Cheers! Sarah and Graeme

The wedding and that cake!

Sarah wanted me to post a couple of couple of pictures from her sister's wedding. The first is of her remarkable cake that she baked. I'll need to ask Sarah about the specifics but I think one was fruit, one chocolate and the other a sponge cake. All were made by Sarah's own hands! Apparently there was not a smidgen left! The other picture is of the royal grumpster himself. Ohhh was it fun trying to dress him on the wedding day. It was a bit like trying to dress an eel on a rainy day that had smeared itself with copious amounts of lard. In no way am I implying that Coinneach is like a slippery eel.

Thanks, Sarah and Graeme

Happy Christmas and our tree

Do you like our tree?

We fulfilled our yearly tradition: the purchase of an oversized tree from Tyrebagger forest. They are great value, eco-friendly coming from replenishable stock and it is great fun picking the perfect tree. Tiernan and Coinneach enjoyed a yummy hot dog whilst Sarah devoured her precious venison burger which was completely for the baby's benefit :-) Here are a couple of snapshots of the boys. Coinneach always manages to smile after we have taken the picture.

Happy and spooky Halloween

Another year and another attempt to get that damn apple out of the bowl. This year I did prevail and landed myself a beauty of a Braeburn. It was darn tasty!!

Coinneach really enjoyed Halloween this year becsuse last year he was completely oblivious to what was going on. He also absolutely hated that pumkin outfit we forced him to wear. Alas he may be too big next year to wear it again. A shame because Sarah enjoy putting tights on him!

Tiernan as always went straight for the items covered in sugar and promptly discarded the apple. A good 20 lashes should cure that problem.

Happy Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen! (imagine a scary voice)

Sarah and Graeme

Say "Cheese!" - Disneyland, Florida

This is Coinneach's "Cheese" face. Whenever we asked him to smile for a photograph, this was the result. Isn't he endearing. All the photos we took of Coinenach in Florida pretty much look like this unfortunately! We'll upload some more photos pretty soon of our holiday to Disneyland in October. It was really fantastic apart from the utterly horrendous flight home. Turbluence + Toddler = Arrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhh! See you soon. - Graeme & Sarah

7 years old

Arghhhhh, pieces of 8 and all that malarkey. Tiernan has just celebrated his 7th birthday. My goodness, he is growing up so quickly. Given the recent hubbub about Pirates of the Caribbean, Tiernan decide he would love to have a pirate themed birthday party. So we did. Everyone came dressed as firece some pirates or pretty Elizabeth Swans (without the anorexia). Tiernan originally wanted a cake shaped like a pirate ship, but we concluded it would be pretty impossible and most likely really expense to get a cake shaped like a boat. So we opted for a photo cake from Asda. They're great. Just take an A4 sized photograph to Asda and for the motley sum of £20 you get a cake suitable for a bunch of blood thirsty pirates. All in all everyone really enjoyed themselves. It was a day to remember. Thanks, Sarah and Graeme

Christmas!!

Quick post to say Merry christmas and Happy New Year!!!! and a few pictures of course All the best for 2006! Sarah, Graeme, Coinneach and Tiernan xxxxxx

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