best vest

When K and I tied the knot back in 2007, I made up a simple iron-on design that I then put onto a hoodie to display the change to her new married family name.

Having been up 3 times in the night I was struggling to get back to sleep at 6 o'clock this morning and so thought I'd make this a new family tradition and knocked up the little vest top below for F.

Haven't put it on her yet, think we'll save that for the weekend when she will meet her Aunty V and soon to be Uncle R for the first time.

could you be...

...the most beautiful girl in the world?

some more photos of our delicious daughter in the link above.

getting to know you

well here we are at day 5 and thanks to the expert help of Grandma and Granny C our little family unit of three is starting to find its way.

Here's a quick overview of the first few minutes, hours and days of TFR...

A mahoosive thanks also goes out to all of our friends, relatives and neighbours for their lovely cards, best wishes and most generous gifts.

hello world

Thanks to all of our lovely pals that left messages at home, on our phones and on the blog earlier this week.

For those of you that don't know Florence Dorrie made it into the big wide world after around 36 hours of blood sweat and tears from her mummy and weighed in at 3.14Kg (6lb 14.5oz).

We all came home for the first time yesterday and are now adjusting to our new way of life.


I still don't really know what day it is and things are still a bit of a blur.

One thing is crystal clear however I am now the proud husband and father of two beautiful girls.

water works

At 2am this morning K woke me to tell me that her waters had just broken. Fortunately not quite the torrent that she felt that she might get but over a period of time there was certainly "enough to fill your slippers" as the midwife had warned at the last growth scan.

After calling the delivery suite at the hospital we went in to get K checked out.

Everything was fine and dandy and we're now back at home with the contractions rowing in intensity if not frequency or length.

How long we've got until the main show who knows...