BROKEN LEG!

Hey Guys, and as you can tell by the title, I have had a slight accident. I must admit that it may not be broken but unfortunately, as I am still looking for work, I am not currently covered by the healthcare system to check it out. To be honest it might be me being a little dramatic as always but next week I will be insured and we'll see whats going on.

As you may have read in my previous blogs, I have signed for a football team called FK Libez. Since Novemeber I have trained real hard to lose all my baby weight (hehe) and started to gain a little more muscle again. When we had our second pre-season friendly last week, I unfortunately had an accident where I collided with the goalkeeper and my leg folded underneath me. Since then I have had Doctor Jitka Hirst Klapova look after me!

To say the least, I have been going mad here! My day consists of sitting on the sofa with my leg in the air and to be honest, there is only so much Czech television and FIFA in one day I can handle. I then thought to myself, well why not update my blog, as the whole purpose is an online diary.

Apart from that, I have had a couple of interviews and I'm sure I will be in work sometime soon. Well that's enough about me! Max is doing real well, he is really active now and just wants to play all day. He now knows little games such as pass the toy (where he passes the toy to me and then I pass it  back), he loves peek-a-boo and his favourite game is to chase our dog (Mia) around the house. They are becoming best friends.

He's also going through around 3 dribble cloths a day which means he is cutting more teeth. It will more than likely be his top two but who knows?! Jitka is also doing well and has also started writing articles on fashion. I will leave a link on the bottom in case anybody would like to check it out. I wish I could comment more but my fashion knowledge is pretty poor....Jitka is in charge of pretty much everything when it comes to fashion.

We also added a new member to the family....meet Diego the Siamese Fighting Fish also known as Bettas. It was my birthday present from Jitka and I absolutely love him! He has got a twenty gallon tank so he should be happy in there. And yes, he is called Diego because of the mighty Diego Costa who plays for Chelsea (Jitka did not approve). We just need to wait a few days before we can add some other fish.

So to wrap up, keep your fingers crossed for me and hopefully I will announce some good news. Thank you for reading and I will leave the link below to Jitka's fashion article (it is written in Czech but it can be translated).

Bye guys!

Jitka's Article

http://dvehlavy.cz/moda/historie-mikiny-a-trochu-inspirace

EIGHT MONTH UPDATE!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my update on Max. I believe I did my last update when he was only six months old, so I have quite a bit to tell you about.

First of all I cannot believe how fast Max is growing up! Eight months ago and our lives were about to change forever. I must admit, I wasn't scared at all which came as a surprise because I usually tend to freak out at things as huge as this. I just knew it was the right time.

So Max has gone from "commando crawling" to now moving on his knees. One of us always has to keep an eye on him as he loves to play with everything which isn't his toys. If he's not going after the cables, he's heading for the dog bowl or if it's not the dog bowl, he tries to pull the bin over....I'm sure he knows what he's doing.

When we were in England last week my dad taught him how to stand! He was extremely wobbly to begin with but over the past week or so he really is being more stable. He can also crawl over to his play pen or the sofa and pull himself up. His face of excitement is the best because you can see he is extremely pleased with himself.

Normally you would think he has learnt enough at the moment but no, he is trying his hardest to talk. As one wise person on Jeremy Kyle once said, he's "smacking his gums together" but I'm sure he wasn't using it in the same context. They are not quite words yet but I think he will be asking what he wants for breakfast sometime soon.

And to top it all off, he has two "nearly fully" grown bottom teeth. When being first time parents I wasn't sure whether he was teething or not, so when the first two popped out it was a sigh of relief. And I must say, that when he smiles, he looks like a rabbit (only joking) he looks adorable! Now the first ones have popped out I'm sure the rest will follow.

That's all of the milestones he has achieved so far and I must admit that he seems to be a very happy and healthy baby. I will look forward to giving you another update this time next month. I am now going to get ready for my first pre-season football match today. So have a great day and I'll see you soon. I hope you enjoy the videos.

Bye Guys.

ENGLAND BABY!

Hey Guys, so I know its been a while since my last blog update, but I have been rather busy visiting family and friends back at home. I also spent the first two weeks on my own without Jitka and Max for the first time, so it meant that I had nobody to take decent pictures for me. Jitka once asked me to take a picture of her and I somehow cut her head out of the photo.....so my photography skills aren't the best! So I apologize if the photos are not up to standard on this blog.

WEEK ONE

It's Friday 9th January at 13:00 and I have arrived back to the lovely town of Cambridge. As I got on the bus to my parents house, the first thing that crossed my mind was "WHAT!? A day rider is £4.00?!? Before I left it cost £3.80....bloody cheek". So after I got ripped off (hehe) I had made it back home.

First day back and I was home alone so I decided to have a bit of me time.....and I didn't mean that! I sat down with a coffee and caught up with all the amazing English television I was missing. To be honest I really enjoyed it because although watching The Simpsons in Czech is funny to begin with, after a few days the novelty does wear off.

So as the week progresses I made plans to see my brother. Nothing beats a couple of beers while kicking ass on FIFA. As the night progressed and more alcohol was being consumed, I couldn't help but order a Doner Kebab....it just had to be done. And that was a great way to cap off my first week back.

WEEK TWO

After a very relaxing first week, we can now turn to week two where things got a bit more eventful. It started on the Friday night where me and my parents got very music happy and were playing youtube until the early hours of the morning. And it was at two am when I realized that I needed to be awake at seven to go suit fitting.

So Saturday morning came and I was pleasantly surprised as I was feeling "not too bad". It was the car journey that made things more challenging. But we arrived for my Brothers suit fitting and all went very smooth. First one down and one more to go. For the second fitting I arrived promptly and up we went for the second fitting, this was for my best friend Tom's wedding.

We were greeted by two lovely ladies and I have to say, I think they were week at the knees. We had such a laugh and they didn't want us to leave.....they have another client downstairs waiting as we took so long, and they were happy for him to wait. I believe they said "Keep him downstairs, he won't be half as fun as these chaps". I think we made their morning. After all of the suit fitting fun I spent the night at Tom's house where he cooked an amazing Spaghetti Bolognese and again started to play some Playstation.

Sunday then arrived and I went to see another one of my best friends, and what was supposed to be a two hour visit, shortly turned into three, then four and...well I'm sure you can guess whats coming next. I got home at 1 am but had an amazing time!

On Tuesday I went to visit my Sister and nieces. It had been a while since I last saw them so I was really looking forward it. I want to give a big shout out to Gwen as well, as I've heard a lot about you but never met until last week. I have to say, you're a pretty cool mum. We then went out for a meal and made back in time for Eastenders and all that other rubbish.....sorry Melissa but I hate soaps (hehe). But apart from that I really had a time seeing you all.

WEEK THREE

After a few days off Saturday came round and Jitka was flying with Max. To be honest I couldn't wait! Two weeks without my family is definitely long enough. When we met Jitka at the airport, I was greeted with the hugest of smiles from Max....I was sure he missed me as much as I missed Max and Jitka.

As the week went on Max started crawling for the first time on his knees, and before we knew it, he started standing!! When I left two weeks prior he was only crawling commando, and in the space of a few days Max had learnt a lot. 

Week three was a quiet week for us as I unfortunately got a throat infection which led to us cancelling a few plans. So I will take the time to apologize on my blog if you're reading. But apart from that, we had a great time. It was amazing to be back and want to thank my parents for making it a great visit!

So now as I am back in Czech I will update my blog more regularly and I look forward to posting more great achievements from Max. Now I have to go prepare for a big day tomorrow as I have a trial day at a Kindergarten School. Wish me luck :)

See you soon!

NEW YEARS TOOTH!

Hey Guys, another huge milestone and yesterday was the 31st December. Max officially has got his first tooth, what a way to end the year! Over the past few weeks Max has had disrupted sleep to say the least and we were constantly blaming it on teething. He had disrupted sleep patterns, red cheeks and goes through around three dribble clothes a day so after say a couple of weeks, you tend to doubt yourself and begin to think it could be something else. That's when we noticed his first tooth and knew all of the hard work Max has done has paid off.

How amazing is it that it's popped right out on New Year's Eve.....I think he just times these things too perfectly. We took Max to have his six month check-up and he seems to be doing very well and is healthy. The baby doctor (she was actually a fully grown woman not a baby) also said that he is developing at a very fast pace, he is coming up to seven months and can already sit, crawl and roll over so I'm kind of expecting him to ask me what he wants for breakfast tomorrow. So as you can guess we are extremely proud of him.

What should we do to celebrate this massive milestone? Well it's New Year's Eve......so me and Jitka had a couple of hours off while our grandparents looked after Max. I know he is developing at a fast pace but I'm pretty sure he is still too young for a glass of bubbly (hehe).

Yesterday we went to the local Fireman's Depot and had a gathering with close friends for a couple of beverages and nibbles. And we had an amazing time! It wasn't like our usual get together from England, with golden coated smoked salmon and spending it with our two best friends, it was more of a karaoke situation and drinking games and we had a great time.

So I hope you guys enjoyed your night, whatever it was you did, and I will give a blog update over the next couple of days and who knows, maybe Max will be walking and talking...... 

Bye Guys

TWO CHRISTMAS'S!

Hey Guys, I hope you had a great Christmas and that you have plenty planned for the New Year. We had a great time and have spent the last week or so celebrating (hence why I have not been blogging). This year was slightly different to most as I am spending this year in Czech and we get to celebrate twice as a family for the first time. As you can imagine we were pretty excited.

First Christmas Day

Here we are on the 24th December and it's Christmas day! Well if you are from the Czech Republic or Slovakia it is (I'm sure there are other countries as well but I'm not sure). So we were woken up nice an early by our little snapper and had our hopes high for a snowy Christmas. As I put the kettle on I looked outside only to see darkness....of course it's 5 am! But as the daylight began to appear, so did the sun which obviously meant no snow.

As the morning progressed all three of us went downstairs to spend the day with my family in-law, and first on the menu was "Vanocka". It is a sweet bread and I can only compare it to a hot cross bun.....very delicious. And as we sat there eating our breakfast with a coffee we watched a Czech adaptation of Cinderella. I couldn't understand a word but wanted to stay within the Czech tradition.

So around mid-afternoon we then moved on to our second meal of the day which was "Kuba". This dish is basically rice with forest mushrooms, simple but tasty and tasted even better with a beer next me. After our lunch we then went on our way to visit Jitka's Grandmother and family. 

This then leads us to the amazing dinner we had as a lot of you know is "Kapr a bramborovy salat" which translates to Carp with Potato Salad. This was accompanied with a glass of wine and money under the plate. Yes I said money under the plate! It is meant to bring you luck in the future with finances, and as I am unemployed I need all the luck I can get, so I had extra (hehe).

Now for the best bit...the presents. After the meal at around 6 - 7 pm we exchanged gifts and I couldn't have been happier. Max got spoiled, like most kids on their first Christmas, and wouldn't let go of his new caterpillar toy. Again he didn't really know what was going on but he behaved extremely well and seemed really happy.

After present opening and a few drinks I decided I had to go to bed as the next day was going to be a long day. So Jitka and her family sat up and watched another movie called Pelisky while I was fast asleep with Max.

Second Christmas Day

It's 5 am again and it's Christmas! Well as I am native English, today was my Christmas.... And how about kicking the day off with pre-heating the oven.....yes you heard me, I was about to cook my first Christmas Dinner ever! Over the last twenty six years the only contribution I have made was eating it. 

So I roped Jitka into helping as two heads is better than one! And I can now sympathize with every single one of you who cooks this meal....it really is stressful but rewarding. Well as the Turkey was cooking on a slow heat I thought that it's definitely time for a bit of Buble (Michael Buble) while eating some mince pies (which I will try and burn off during the new year).

Dancing away while opening my first lager, I was in the greatest mood of all year. Max was playing with his new toys while Jitka's other family members visited us as a surprise. It was nice because it felt like I was at home, even though I was missing my family. As we were cooking the meal, we then found out we were catering for two extra persons, no worries.....I started feeling more relaxed as time went on (mainly because of the alcohol) and it was then when I then realized that no body has eaten this meal before, so there fore have nothing to compare it to. All the nerves had then disappeared.

So around three o'clock it was all prepared and served and I have to say that it was the definitely the best Christmas dinner I have cooked! I know it was the first but we have to keep the standard now as everyone is coming back for more next year. We couldn't have been happier.

After dinner things started to get a little wild as we started to play frustration ( the board game) and after a few more drinks, me and Jitka's brother carried on the festivities watching music on YouTube until late in the night (my parents would have been proud). It really was an awesome couple of days.

Wow that was a big blog! My head is frazzled. We had an amazing week or so and as now New Years Eve is approaching, I have decided to tone it down for a few days. I hope you all enjoyed your Christmas and will have an amazing new year. Thank you for taking the time to read and the blogging will be back to it's usual timely fashion and enjoy the photos.

Bye Guys!

CRAWLING FOR THE FIRST TIME!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my update. It's going to be just a short one but it's an important blog to record. Here we are again with the second big milestone of Max's life. I blogged a couple of weeks ago when he started to sit unaided but now he's crawling! I must admit, he's not crawling with ease but he is definitely moving forward. It's funny I say forward because over the past few days he has only managed to push himself backwards.

Someone once said to me that if you experience a few rough days with him crying etc, it means that he is ready to unleash a huge milestone in his life. To be honest I think it makes sense as we have always been relating it to teething, but as there is still no teeth, he has learnt a lot.

He is so close to saying his first words as well....he says "hello, dadda and mama" but I'm sure he doesn't understand what he is actually saying, but he definitely has these words down to a tee.

Anyway, we are off to Prague again today and I will update my blog with today's events. We are shopping for Max.....so excited!

I hope you enjoy the video.

Bye Guys

WINTER GRILL!

Hey Guys, and again welcome to my blog update. So here we are again on another Sunday and it just seems that time is flying by extremely quickly. Max is almost seven months and I have been living in Czech now for almost five months! It has been a hectic five months but I wouldn't change it for anything. It really does feel like "years" since I attempted putting up IKEA furniture on our first month here.

Well, we are now finally starting to settle properly and I'm starting to experience living the Czech way, which leads us to today's blog update. 

Today we started the same as usual with Max waking up 6 am and he now does this "cute thing" where he screams his head off until you pick him up from his cot....very cute indeed (you definitely do not get any lye ins with this little munchkin). So, at 8 am I made my way to play 5 a-side football as per usual, which we won 8-5 (*cough* *cough*) and after we went on our way.

After twenty minutes of walking we made it to our destination....if it weren't for Mia the dog, we would have made it in fifteen....she really has to sniff EVERYTHING! Normally we would have walked to the forest but we had a slight scare of rain and decided to set up camp a little closer. To be honest I wasn't bothered, as long as I had my sausage I was happy....haha.

We (Jitka's dad) lit the fire, drank some beer and rum with tea and all gathered round the fire to enjoy our feast. It is a tradition that a lot Czech villagers do and I really do enjoy everything about it. I mean what's not to like? Sitting round a fire, eating meat and drinking beer with no noise or persons in sight...it's pretty amazing.

This time Max was finally awake for an outing and seemed to enjoy what he could understand. The only problem with him being awake was that he kept knocking his hat over his eyes and tended to screech a little. But apart from that he was as good as gold.

After around one hour we made our way home and here I am now, blogging about our day with you all. I hope you guys enjoyed reading this and enjoy the photos. See you next time.

Bye guys.

PRAGUE VISIT!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my blog update. Over the past couple of weeks I have been saying that I will blog about visiting Prague and the Old Town Square and finally, here it is. 

I knew it was going to be a long day but the first planned event of the day was a friendly game of Football with friends and family (we play every Sunday morning). And unfortunately, whilst warming up, I thought I may have broken my thumb! It was then I thought, great, I've ruined another family outing by spending all day in hospital. But the great news is that it started to feel better and maybe I was being a little over dramatic. So I got home and we went on our merry way.

When we arrived we found a parking space right in the center of Prague pretty sharpish and best of all, it was a free space, so we knew we were in for a good day. After five minutes of walking we arrived in the center of the Old Town Square. My first reaction was, wow there is a lot of people! But what was I expecting? It's known to be one of the greatest Christmas Markets in Europe. It was very impressive!

They had a stage for music, which was purposely set for Carol Singers (they sang in English which made it a little easier for me to understand), lots of traditional Czech grub such as Trdelnik, which is similar to a doughnut, Klobasa sausage and lots of meat style skewers etc. They had buskers, tour guides and lots of entertainers. The best bit was the hot mulled wine and warm mead. It couldn't have felt more like Christmas, standing there with a glass of mulled wine, listening to Carol singers under a gigantic Christmas Tree. 

As we made our way to the shopping center we stumbled across all sorts of entertainment. There was a lady blowing huge soap bubbles which caught the eye of children as they tried to burst them as quick as possible. I think she was getting pretty annoyed because they were popping them before she had even finished. And a little further down the road we saw this peculiar act where a man was levitating above another man, it had me thinking for a long time until I decided that they are actually floating. Jitka then burst my little bubble by telling me how it's done.

We then made it to the shopping center where it has six floors and over two hundred stores. It was heaven for Jitka but I knew it was going to be a late afternoon, and what was meant to be shopping for family presents, quickly turned into cloth shopping for Jitka. I'm not going to lie, I was pretty immature and starting moaning like a child (but it worked).

Finally after walking around all of the shops, we made our way back to the Square to see how it looked with all the lights. And it was, as they would say in Czech, Krasny (Beautiful). Again the only down side was the amount of people, you literally couldn't move, but it was Sunday and we didn't expect anything else. It was a shame that Max couldn't understand what was going on but next year I'm sure he will be more aware, and probably sleep less (hehe).

So there you have it! I finally got off my lazy bum to do some Christmas shopping, and its only the 8th December. I usually do my shopping on the 24th (*cough* *cough*). So feeling a little more organized now I'm a family man. Next week we will go food and drink shopping, the best bit!

Thank you for reading and I will update my blog in three days time. And sorry for the bad quality photos as we had to use my phone.....

Bye Guys.

THEY FOUND HIM!

Hey Guys, and welcome to my blog update. Again just a short one but felt I needed to record this. Around three months ago, a cat had kittens in our garden. Little did we know that one would be left behind. Jitka's brother was doing his home duty of feeding the chickens and it was then when he stumbled across this neglected kitten crawling around the pen. It was from there on in that Jitka and her brother took care of this little smasher.

They both decided to keep the kitten but only if the mother didn't come back for him and that he was purely an outdoor cat. So as the weeks went on, the mother never came back and we knew that he was our pet.

Unfortunately around two weeks ago he decided to go his own way and leave his little home. But Jitka couldn't help worry about his safety, so she tried asking all of the neighbor's if they had seen him, posted a comment on the village page through Facebook, asked the local Zoo if they had any kittens handed in and finally asked the pet detective if they had any news. It's fair to say that we just wanted to make sure he was safe.

This morning we received a phone call from the Zoo, a kitten had been spotted which matched the description and was captured for safety. Five minutes later he was returned to us. It was then that the lovely lady told us that he didn't go his own way but was stolen along with many other kittens. The person who stole him is known for his animal cruelty and it literally was a case of them taking the kitten away from him. So we took him to the vet and were assured that he is OK.

We were extremely lucky to be re-united with him and he just needs a little bit of looking after as he was clearly traumatized from where he came from. And from now on in, he will be accompanying Jack as another indoor cat.

Jitka has yet to come up with a name, so he is called Mr X at the moment. This now calculates to six pets which does not include the other collection my parents in law have. We definitely have our hands full! 

Oh and the two parrots downstairs are sitting on two eggs.......

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope to see you again. It's a sad story but with a good ending and it has been a good day.

There will be a Prague update on Monday as we are going on Sunday.

Bye for now.

Mr X playing with Mia

IT'S SNOWING!

Hey Guys, unfortunately we didn't make it to Prague on Sunday because, well, we were basically too lazy to go! So we are going this week sometime instead as we need to get all of our pressies and want to see the Old Town Square. But today it's snowing!! It's not a Blizzard (well in England people may call it a "Blizzard") but I'm sure it will pick up very soon.

Max must be in a very good mood today as he allowed me to stay in bed until 8am, which means he slept for almost eleven hours. It's like he knew something magical was happening outside. As I dragged myself out of bed we immediately noticed the weather had changed for the better.

Before we moved to Czech I was really looking forward to the winter, solely because of the amount of snow they receive. I definitely prefer the cold and icy weather compared to the hot and sticky. With Mia, this is only the second time she has experienced this type of weather and I remember that she absolutely loved it! She was jumping around head first and kept herself busy chasing her own tail. It's a shame she doesn't understand what yellow snow is (hehe).

I think Max is probably too young to appreciate it at the moment, but I seriously can't wait until he is old enough so we can build a snowman together and, of course, have snowball fights. Jitka is also very excited as this means the mountains will be perfect for snowboarding. I for sure will not be going as I do not want a repeat of what happened last time.

For those of you that know me have probably heard this story a thousand times, so I will tell it one last time. I decided to go skiing with Jitka's side of the family, it took us two hours to get there and to be honest I was absolutely terrified. I kept saying to myself, if all these people can do it, so can I.

So after another hour of getting equipped we started to make our way to the top of the mountain, and when we got there, I decided that I needed a drink to calm the nerves. I remember looking down the mountain and saying to Jitka "I'd rather break a limb than ski down there!" Well I wasn't disappointed.

After Jitka connected my ski's her snowboard decided to grow legs and run down the mountain, which then led to Jitka chasing after her snowboard. As I was sitting there I decided it would be a cool and great idea to ski past her while waving. After around two seconds I realized that I have never been skiing and how the hell do I stop!?!? I self-consciously thought of roller blades and tried to break using my heel, which then led to me flying up in the air with my back landing on my wrist. 

And yes, you guessed it I broke my wrist in two places after just eight seconds of skiing. And just to top it off, nobody from Jitka's family had the chance to snowboard or ski because I had to go to hospital. Bearing in mind that myself and Jitka were only dating for under a year and I was just trying to impress her and make a good impression on the family. That literally fell flat on its face. Since then I have never dared to ski again.

I will just stick to sledging down the front door porch.

Can we dare to dream of a white Christmas this year? I hope so as this would be a first for me. Thank you for reading and we are now all going to enjoy the weather and watch a movie. Next time I will be updating about Christmas shopping in Prague, and our visit to the Old Town Square. Don't forget to follow and share with friends.

I hope you enjoy the photos.

Bye for now.

The view of the garden from our window this morning

Moments after leaving the onsite hospital from breaking my wrist

On the way up to the top of the mountain

Mia enjoying her breakfast this morning

The view from our living room window

                                         

A little clip of the garden

HE'S SITTING UP!

Hey Guys, just a short blog today as I did say I would post all milestones Max achieves. And he has sat up for the first time without any help or cushioning. Over the last few weeks he has been trying so hard to crawl, sit up, talk and at the same time he is teething. So I think it's fair to say that he has a lot going on and it has been pretty overwhelming for him. It must be all the spinach we're feeding him.

But after lots of practice he has done it. He still isn't 100% safe to be left alone yet but we're pretty sure in a couple of weeks he can be left to his own accord. We will basically be focusing on getting him comfortably sitting and then moving on to crawling.

With regards to his crawling, he is trying so hard and he definitely gets a little frustrated, mainly because the little progress he does make, I pick him up and put him back in the middle of the play mat. He must hate me (hehe). The reason for this is because we have wooden flooring and he tends to drop his head a lot (so we don't want any injuries).

On Sunday we are going Christmas shopping in Prague, and because of this, it opens up a lot more options for his presents. We are also checking out the Old Town Christmas Market, and it's known to be one of the best Christmas Markets in Europe. We are really looking forward to it, Jitka will take plenty of photos, and I will give you a full blog update on Monday.

Again thank you for reading and see you soon.

Bye Guys!

       

Max being a big boy

P.S. We are currently without a professional camera for three weeks, that's why the quality won't be quite the same

SIX MONTHS TODAY!

Hey Guys, Max is half a year old already. Wow, that has gone quick! Six months ago from today, me and Jitka were sitting in the sun just wandering when will our little boy make an appearance. Little did we know that it would be that same night from 1 am.

I remember being so excited, and it didn't matter how many times we checked our bag that we prepared months before, I couldn't help think that we had forgotten something! Turns out we actually didn't forget anything, and for those who know me, understands that is an achievement for me. So we arrived pretty sharpish and was given our room straight away, and before we knew it, nineteen hours later he was here.

The feeling is indescribable but it was the happiest moment of my life. When the midwife handed my son to me for the first time I couldn't help think "wow, I'm actually a dad". I'm sure people will back me on this, it doesn't actually feel real until you first see your child.

So the following day after great progression we were clear to take him home. And that first day when you take your baby home, trust me you will not get any sleep! Well, I can only speak for me and Jitka but we were too scared to sleep in case anything would happen. But over time that does change and we are now the opposite, we sleep whenever we can. 

For the first eight weeks we set up camp with my parents, and we couldn't have wished for a better start and well behaved baby. He slept through the night and in the day just kept himself occupied with his swinging chair and looking at my father's golden saxophone (I think he loved the shininess of it). We used to take him on daily walks through the park and had to resist the temptation of ice cream, as there was always an ice cream van present.

After the first two months we then made our biggest decision yet and moved abroad to the Czech Republic. We were absolutely dreading the flight but he was amazing. He didn't make one peep, which was great because apparently we had a retired midwife sitting behind us, and she had to let us know that if we needed help she was there (Thank you stranger).

Since then Max has already hit some milestones. He started rolling over about a month ago, and since then, he just constantly rolls around the house. He loves his belly time and is so close to crawling. He can sit up but he does need reassurance and help with balance, so almost there. He is extremely vocal and we are trying to teach him some words, but so far he can only spit and say "ga bla blah boo aaaa".

We couldn't have wished for a better son and it's great that he is progressing well. I want to thank you all for taking the time to read this, and I will update the blog within the next few days. Enjoy the photos and they will be in order from one week to six months. Please feel free to leave any comments.

Bye Guys.

The calm before the storm

Me in the room where it all began

Max at one day old

Max at one to two weeks old

Very sleepy boy

Spending some quality time in the park

Getting ready for Christmas

After a long day out