Our personal website for family & friends to keep track on the lives of Brad, Ingrid, Sophie and Max - The King household.
Friday, June 30, 2006
What a cutie...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Birthdays and Coldplays
It’s my birthday today, Ingrid cooked a lovely dinner for us both tonight and Sophie even gave me a cheeky birthday smile after work! Got lots of cool stuff including MYSKY! I have to admit, I’ve been slowly breaking Ingrid down over the past few weeks convincing her we HAVE to have it…even resorting to reverse psychology, she now believes she will benefit immensely from it too!
MY SKY...you beauty!
Shit…I forgot you read this Ingrid…you will love it babe…honest!
Brad
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
No time to update
Monday, June 26, 2006
What the hell is on daddy's head??
Mummy did tell me he’s been wearing his 'Speight's ear-muffs' to bed recently, apparently, it blocks out my so-called crying in the middle of the night...fair enough I 'spose, but that doesn’t explain why he was wearing the same thing last Friday when he went ten-pin bowling with his work mates!
Sophie xx
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Sunshine on a Winters day
Had a visit today from the Farrelly’s, (Rog, Lisa and their two girls Olivier and Grace.) I can remember seeing little Grace when she was around Sophie’s age, now she’s 18 months or so and running around and full of beans...it’s kind of funny thinking that Sophie will be that age very soon, yet hard to imagine at the same time.
Sophie moments before her shower, not sure if she's excited or petrified by the thought!
It was a cracker day today, the sun was shining so after Rog and Lisa left, we bundled up little Sophie, threw her in the car and went for a cruise around Auckland. She starts to grizzle when you pull up to lights or stop, so I now have to brake a long way before lights and inch my way up every so slightly so the car is still moving…it must piss other people off, but oh well, you gotta do what works I 'spose!
I’m off to Sydney on Tuesday to see a concert. (Coldplay) It will be the first time away from the girl’s since birth so I am feeling a little bit guilty (and just a wee bit excited too). I’ll make sure I give Ingrid a night off real soon too so she can go out with friends and not have to worry about bubs for the night, easier to say though, I don’t think either of us will ever feel completely guilt free away from Sophie for a while.
Spot the difference, one is the captain of the Aussie cricket team, the other Roger from work!
Brad
Saturday, June 24, 2006
A Day of Two Halves
Friday, June 23, 2006
Thursday, June 22, 2006
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Into the finals!
Not a lot to report on the Sophie front today, she's grizzly and not sleeping well. Seems to be the 6 week growth spurt we're hearing all about. She's still damn cute though...
The big news: We won our Indoor cricket Semi-final tonight and qualify directly to the grand final! (I was a bit bummed because I thought the final would be next Wednesday when I'm in in Sydney, but because we kicked arse tonight, we get a bye next week before playing the final the following Wednesday)...you beauty.
Brad
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Sophie’s crazy parents
Firstly let me just explain the ridiculous photo above – we went to a renewal of wedding vowels just a few weeks before I gave birth and the couple in question had a room set up at their house for us to all do a dress up and photo session, the above was the result and I can’t even blame drinking for the outcome! We had a great time and Matt and Steph both looked awesome and the ceremony was beautiful and very moving.
On to today, what an eventful day Sophie and I had, firstly we had our mums and bubs class which was all about baby development and things to do at playtime to stimulate their brains and help them grow into big bright strong adults, I tried a couple of things on Sophie when we got home, but she didn’t want a bar of it, she was only interested in food, food and more food.
Luckily today I decided to walk up to the letterbox to collect the mail as usually I leave it for Brad to get on his way home, anyway as I walked past one of the houses that we share the driveway with I heard someone yelling ‘help’ and looked into the garage of the house the voice was coming from and found the elderly neighbour lying in her garage! The poor thing had had a bit of a fall and hurt herself quite badly and couldn’t move, I asked how long she had been lying there for and she said about an hour! Imagine if I hadn’t gone to check the letterbox, the poor old thing would have had to wait the rest of the day for the rest of the neighbours to arrive home from work! Anyway it was pretty obvious that she had done some pretty major damage to her ankle and needed to get it looked at, she was pretty insistent that she didn’t want to go to hospital as she felt really stupid and embarrassed, but when I tried to pick her up and pop her in the car I couldn’t move her! So I called for an ambulance, they were very good and arrived within about 10 minutes, I hung around when they arrived to help get her handbag and house keys and lock the place up for her and lent her my phone to call her grandson and then she was off! Sophie was an angel and slept through all of the drama even though it was well past her dinnertime, however as soon as I got her in the house she woke up squawking for food and then proceeded to be hard work for the rest of the day until about 5.30 when I finally got her to bed – so I am about to have my dinner, which will be the first thing I have eaten since breakfast this morning! Whew what a day, I might just spend all of tomorrow in bed recuperating.
Ingrid
Monday, June 19, 2006
"Tell Me Why Sophie Don't Like Monday's"
Gets switched to overload
And nobody’s gonna get to sleep today
She’s gonna scream then shit and moan
And daddy doesn’t understand it
He always said she was good as gold
And he can see no reason
Cos there are no reasons
What reasons do you need to be shown
Tell me why
Sophie don’t like Mondays
She needs to sleep
The whole day down...
Brad Geldof
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Coffee Group Girls
Me
Jenni
Rowena
Marta
Vanessa
Libby
Theresa
Becky
Hopefully as time goes on and the babies get bigger we can actually get photos of mums and bubs too, but at this stage if they are asleep then they stay where they are (usually in their carseats), because trying to get a baby back to sleep when out and about is almost impossible!
Ingrid
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Friday, June 16, 2006
Snow in Auckland?
Thursday, June 15, 2006
Six weeks today
Next Thursday will be an interesting post as Sophie is booked in to have her immunizations done! Mmmmm, maybe I should go away for the night and leave Brad to babysit!
Wednesday, June 14, 2006
Good Day
6am Sophie woke for feed, far to early as far as I was concerned as she normally sleeps for four hours at night, but she was adamant she wanted to eat and then play, so back down to sleep at 7.30am
8.30am Sophie decided she was going to wake up again, but I was not having any of it and decided she was going to stay in bed until a proper time had lapsed for feeding, rocked her off to sleep
11.15am Sophie woke for feed, had a bit of a play, we laughed at the faces she pulled and back down to sleep at 12.45pm
3.30pm Sophie woke for feed, had a bit of a play and went back down to bed at 5pm
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Sophie's new toy...
Brad
Monday, June 12, 2006
Sophie knew...
Brad
Sunday, June 11, 2006
Sophie's everywhere!
Ingrid also goes to a couple of coffee groups and three are now 4 SOPHIE’S out of 16 or so babies...that’s just plain scary. There’s brand new shows on telly with female characters named…wait for it SOPHIE, even the bloody adds on TV have little SOPHIE’S on them!
We haven’t actually leagally named SOPHIE yet, we have to do it within the first two months and we didn't name her for a few days after birth, so nothing on the birth certificate either…mmmmm I wonder...
Brad
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Sophie's first All Balck game
Brad and Sophie's All Black game
We gave Sophie her first shower this morning, she seemed to really enjoy being held with warm water streaming all over her and looked really relaxed, I even saw a couple of smiles sneak in too. It’s a lot easier showering with her than giving her a bath. I got the easy part by holding her and making stupid baby noises, while Ingrid got the rough end of the stick - she had to dry, dress and change her afterwards. I shouldn't laugh but Sophie now drops her bottom lip when she's upset and both Ingrid and I were in stitches today laughing at how silly she looked! (it sounds awful I know, but I'm sure Sophie does it for sympathy votes)
She didn’t sleep that well during the morning and afternoon today, but then made up for it big time this evening by sleeping for close to 6 hours. We thought we’d leave her to sleep and not wake her, to see if it makes any difference overnight and tomorrow…we’ll let you know if it works or not.
Brad
"What the freakin' is going on here!"
Friday, June 9, 2006
Sleepy Friday
Thursday, June 8, 2006
Late for work...Sophie's fault.
Sophie now wakes up anywhere from 6:00 in the morning and I get ready for work around 6:30am, which normally works out brilliantly, It allows me to have a quick cuddle and chat with her before heading off for the day. This morning she woke up a little earlier than normal (5ish) and by the time I woke up, Ingrid had already fed her and put her back to bed again…"arrh shitter” I thought. Obviously, there was no way I could go to work that annoyed, not having had my Sophie fix for the day, so, there was only one thing to do, I had to stay in be and wait till she woke again…so I got the best of both worlds this morning, a much needed sleep-in, but more importantly, spending quality 'Sophie and daddy time' just before work (even though she made me miss a breakfast meeting in the process...naughty Sophie!)
The girls went along to coffee group today and Sophie was on her best behavior again (Ingrid had to take her for a blat around Auckland in the car for a good half an hour before it started to ensure she would be well crashed out during coffee group)
I’ve been trying to get Ingrid to take the camera with her every time she goes somewhere with Sophie, so we can post some photos of the girls on their days out…I gotta admit, Ingrid is getting better at this, today she took the camera with her at least….she just forgot to take any photos with it!
Brad
Show us your best Billy Idol pose Sophie!
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Arriving home from work
I timed coming home from work today perfectly too, just as Sophie was waking up…you beauty! It’s a pretty cool feeling driving home after a long day itching to see bubs...and she wakes up just as I arrive in the door, it’s like coming home to a brand new birthday present every single day.
(even though this present comes with number 1's and number 2's)
Both girls are off to coffee group again tomorrow (and just between you and I think Sophie is the cutest baby out of the lot…)
Brad
Tuesday, June 6, 2006
666 The Number of the Sophie!
Ingrid sent me an email today asking if I could pick up some food from the Vet for Charlie on the way home from work. I knew something was up at home , as Ingrid had titled the email:
Brad
Monday, June 5, 2006
Does my bum look big in these nappies?
It was a beautiful day in Auckland today so we threw bubs in the stroller and went for a walk to the shopping centre. Sophie was asleep most of the time but then awoke on the way home, which has kind of screwed up the 4-hour routine now because she wouldn’t go back to sleep without another feed – so it could be a late feed tonight for daddy (I’ don’t really mind though, there’s a pretty good game of test cricket happening late at night so it gives me a good excuse to stay up)
Back to work tomorrow, but this week should be a little less full-on than last week. The entire Rock suite has been completely demolished too and we’re all working out of make shift offices at the moment, but hopefully in a couple of weeks things will be back to normal.
Brad
At last...my pink office is gone!
Sunday, June 4, 2006
1 month old today
"Check out my Grand-daughter...isn't she cute"
The Moore’s have been and gone now and Sophie couldn’t have behaved better. Uncle Steve brought Sophie a cool little All Blacks bib (she's gonna wear with pride next weekend when the AB's take on the Irish) Nana Carol and Mike gave her a bottle top-up after Ingrid fed her and she had a bit of a play and went to bed, she grizzled for a while but eventually fell off to sleep.
Q] Sophie’s is now 1 month old to the day, and what do we think?
A] Couldn’t imagine life without her.
Brad
Saturday, June 3, 2006
What a Sh*t of a day...
We even resorted to driving around for half an hour to try and get her to sleep but it didn’t work, not with an empty belly, of course I can’t see whether she is getting enough food in one hit, so it’s a bit of a guessing game and I resort to the formula as the last resort, but I am just going to have to swallow my pride and realize that I can’t provide her with what she needs and just get on with the artificial feeding (as everyone likes to call it), I personally don’t have a problem with using formula, but you do feel guilty when everyone advocates breast is best.
Friday, June 2, 2006
The Friday Chill
Sophie and Ingrid did just that and then decided to surprise me and pop into work this afternoon, which was a very cool surprise indeed (I don’t think I will ever get sick of showing Sophie off to everyone)
A few people commented on how much she has ‘filled out’ over the past couple of weeks, so Ingrid and I had a look through the photos tonight, and it is quite noticeable the change. Her sleeping patterns are way better now, she’s settling far easier and even starting to play a little now too!
Not sure if I mentioned in earlier posts, but I have had the most crazy run with the changing nappies recently, we’ve been taking turns in changing her and I had been gloating to everyone that I’ve managed to avoid ‘number two’ duties for around 10 days straight….but I think Ingrid must have had a quite word in Sophie’s ear because my luck lately has been diabolical.
It’s now 11:46PM and I’ve just put Sophie to bed. She woke up on time around 10:30PM, had a feed, then watched a bit of test cricket on TV (that’s my girl) and then went to bed wide awake and I’m pleased to say she hasn’t even grizzled in the slightest.
Things are way better now.
Brad