Spring in London.

After a period of hectic travelling, you finally spend a full month in London! The weather is not too bad, actually this is an understatement as it turns out to be the driest spring in decades! To celebrate this you host your first barbeque where all your little NCT friends are invited.
In the end it is a fun day with Tara, Simon and little William, Rachel, Mark and Kitty-Bee, Isabel, Steve and baby Charlie, Helena, James with little Joe and Jon, Lorne and Oscar. The only ones missing were Sinead, Liz and little Taihg as it was Sinead's birthday.
It was especially great to have all the dad's together again after the last few months!

Your dad's old friend Jane Evans and her 8 month old son Oliver also came over to meet you for the first time. The two of you had great fun in your little gym!

But soon the ants in the pants dictate that we can't stay in London all the time, so a daytrip is planned for the May Day Bank Holiday. The destination this time is Hever Castle, famous for being Ann Boleyn's childhood home. We spend the day with Fabio and Kate, and also Aiden with his daughter Siorche. It was great fun to wander around the beautiful gardens and to circumnavigate the lake.

If this is spring, we can't wait for summer proper to begin!

Fourth month.

As with most of these first months, it has been a month full of changes! However, we will remember it as the month of the big weight gain! At first your weight gain has been very slow, to the point where you started to slip down the various growth curves, but with the additional 200 ml of formula milk we give you every day, you've reached almost 6 kg by the end of this month!

It's also been a great month of travelling. Out of the whole month you've spent only 5 days at home in London! The rest of the time you were in Namibia where you've met your African family for the first time, and also to Italy for Easter.

You start to be really good fun as well, and your little smiles just light up the room! What makes it even more enjoyable is that you've started to respond, meaning that a smile on demand is now quite easy, especially in the morning.
You've always been quite a strong baby, but now you keep your head up very well. We sometimes put you on your tummy, and the way you keep your head upright like a little meerkat is just too cute for words!

One area that is still not improving is your sleeping pattern. Some nights you still wake up EVERY hour, making it extremely exhausting for your poor mom! But as if to compensate for this, you seem to have grown accustomed to the changing table, and the terrible screams with every nappy change are no more. As always you still enjoy bath time a lot, but for some strange reason you have gone completely off dummies! Whereas at first you could be calmed down with a good suck on your dummy, you just won't have any of that now!

And finally, to round off a great, adventurous month, you've also seen the sea for the first time! Judging by the big smiles when you saw the great blue for the first time, you've definitely inherited the Italian's love of the seaside!