Barton Family Photo

Here's the missing Christmas family shot from my side of the family. Thanks to my sister for providing the image.

Holiday Review

Happy New Year! Its about time for an update I think. We traveled back to the UK for Christmas to spend time with our families, which was lovely. The flights were a little tricky with Alexander not wanting to sit still on our laps for long. And who can blame him - much more fun to be crawling or walking (while holding onto things) around and exploring. While the weather was still very cold, we managed to get out for walks several times, including along the Thames, Bushy Park and Richmond Park and around Dover while we were there.

I'm still waiting for my sister to send me a family photo from Molesey, but below is a photo from Dover of us and some of Steph's family.

And here is one of us and our friends, Steve and Julie and Mike and May. It used to be that the six of us would hang out together. Now its 11! It was lovely to see them and we only wish it could have been for longer.

This is a vaguely organised looking photo. I have many others that include screaming or running children!

I will upload some more photos of our trip once we have them sorted out.

It was Steph's birthday on Sunday - 33! I still think this is early 30's, just. As a birthday treat, Steph went back to work yesterday, for the first time since before Alexander was born. At the moment she's just doing Monday's so nothing too stressful, for her anyway. For me, it means I have to get Alexander up, dressed, fed and off to a friends for the day. To his credit though, Alexander was apparently very well behaved.

And finally, for this entry anyway, Alexander has taken his first unaided steps! - watch the video here!

A few more photos of Alexander

Here are a few more photos of our little boy. He is currently suffering from 'peely head skin' - i.e. he has dry skin - so don't be alarmed. Anyway, he still looks cute!

The first photo has Alexander under the Christmas tree. What a present!

Now he's peaking out from behind his blanket.

I couldn't help adding a little tinsel to his basket. Ha ha...

Its been a long day.

And finally, drying his socks...

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone. We wish everyone a very merry Christmas, wherever they are around the world. We just got back from a wonderful brunch at the Sylvia Hotel, at English Bay. There were seven of us, or eight if you count Alexander! After nine months, Steph was finally able to enjoy Eggs Benedict again - and the Sylvia does it the best. Yummy!

Here are a couple of photos that our friends took of us at English Bay afterward. Differences with last year? Well, no snow this year, but a baby instead!